Touch and Go: A Memoir
by Studs Terkel


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The extraordinary life and times of an American icon—the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian's long-awaited memoir—a major publishing event. At nearly ninety-five, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. In... (read more)

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Associated Press Broadcast News Handbook
by Brad Kalbfeld


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Originally available only to Associated Press members, this is the definitive guide to writing and delivering the news on radio, television, and other broadcast media. While the focus throughout is on the art of finding, researching, writing, editing... (read more)

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A Strong West Wind
by Gail Caldwell


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In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas... (read more)

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Quitting the Nairobi Trio: A Memoir
by Jim Knipfel


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The critically acclaimed author of "Slackjaw" chronicles the six months he spent in a Minneapolis psychiatric ward, where he was left to become his own therapeutic counsel after failing at another suicide attempt. In his effort to regain sanity, Knipfel... (read more)

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The Playboy Interviews: Larger Than Life (Playboy Interviews)
by Playboy


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Fame: It's a world unto itself. Only certain people -- the lucky few--are permitted entrance. Their notoriety and influence shape our views on politics, art, commerce, music, even the way we dress and speak. Our lives become defined by how we were before... (read more)

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The Rage and the Pride
by Oriana Fallaci


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With The Rage and the Pride Oriana Fallaci breaks a ten year silence. The silence she kept until September 11's apocalypse in her Manhattan house. She breaks it with a deafening noise. In Europe this book has caused and causes a turmoil never registered... (read more)

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Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life
by Caroline Moorehead




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The first major biography of legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn casts "a vivid spotlight on one of the most undercelebrated women of the 20th century" (Entertainment Weekly). Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the... (read more)

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Best of I.F. Stone
by I F Stone


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Izzy Stone was a reporter, a radical, an idealist, a scholar and, it is clear, a writer whose insights have more than stood the test of time. More than fifteen years after his death, this collection of his work from I.F. Stone's Weekly and elsewhere is... (read more)

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How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
by Toby Young


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In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan--Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour--so why couldn't he?But things didn't quite go according... (read more)

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Years of Minutes
by Andy Rooney


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Andy Rooney has been at it for twenty-five years. It's time to celebrate. So here's the ultimate gift for every Rooney fan: an illustrated collection of Rooney's very best pieces from a quarter century at 60 Minutes. Readers can relive Rooney's sharpest... (read more)

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The Tender Bar: A Memoir
by J. R. Moehringer




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A moving, vividly told memoir full of heart, drama, and exquisite comic timing, about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar J.R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: It was the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who... (read more)

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Ava's Man
by Rick Bragg




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In his memoir All Over but the Shoutin', Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg paid loving tribute to his mother and his dirt-poor upbringing in Alabama. Encouraged by readers who begged for more information about his mother — where... (read more)

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Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network That Is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism
by Mohammed El Nawawy


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Al-Jazeera, the independent, all-Arab television news network based in Qatar, emerged as ambassador to the Arab world in the events following September 11, 2001. Arabic for "the island," Al-Jazeera has "scooped" the western media conglomerates many times.... (read more)

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Out of My Mind
by Andy Rooney


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Every Sunday evening, millions of viewers tune in to 60 Minutes to hear Andy Rooney riff on everything from coffee percolators to the state of the union. Millions more read his weekly newspaper column. Why? Because Rooney tells it like it is. But Rooney... (read more)

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Things Worth Fighting For: Collected Writings
by Michael Kelly


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Until his tragic death at forty-six while covering the war in Iraq, Michael Kelly was widely regarded as one of the preeminent journalists of his generation. This collection of his most memorable stories and columnsdrawn from the Washington Post, New... (read more)

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Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World
by Martin Fletcher


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Martin Fletcher doesn’t claim to be a hero. Yet he didn’t flinch, either. During three decades covering wars, revolutions, and natural disasters, Fletcher worked his way from news agency cameraman to top network correspondent, facing down his... (read more)

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Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen
by Carl Hiaasen


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Kick Ass gave Hiaasen fans a jump start. Now they get another slice of Hiaasen heaven in Paradise Screwed: a wide-ranging safari of South Florida's wildlife in its natural habitat-from fat-cat politicians to migrating mobsters, drowning Dolphins to stray... (read more)

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In Search of Willie Morris: Teh Mercurial Life of a Legendary Writer and Editor
by Larry King


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Willie Morris, the famously talented--and eventually troubled--golden boy writer and editor, helped to remake American journalism and wrote more than a dozen books, with several classics among them. He was made editor of Harper's, the nation's oldest... (read more)

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