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The Tender Bar: A Memoir
by J R Moehringer  
Publisher Comments Torn between the feminine comfort of his mother and the masculine camaraderie he finds in a series of bars and taverns, Moehringer details his difficult but loving upbringing....
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All I Did Was Ask
by Terry Gross
Publisher Comments "I'm Terry Gross and this is Fresh Air" Originating from WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and heard on more than 450 NPR stations, "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" has become a daily habit with millions of listeners nationwide — a must for anyone hoping to...
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All Over But the Shoutin'
by Rick Bragg
From Powells.com By the time he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1996, New York Times correspondent Rick Bragg had already received nearly every award available to an American journalist, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award...
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The Control of Nature
by John Mcphee
Publisher Comments "The Control of Nature" is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control...
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
by Anderson Cooper Publisher Comments Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an...
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Let Me Finish
by Roger Angell
Powells.com Staff Pick This wonderful collection of personal anecdotes by the New Yorker magazine writer and baseball chronicler comes together into a vivid portrait of a life well lived. Angell is witty and urbane. He deftly balances the deeply felt with a delightful, light...
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Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring)
by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents. Who better to speak to that person who finds him or...
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Watchdogs of Democracy?: The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public
by Helen Thomas Publisher Comments In the course of more than sixty years spent covering Washington politics, Helen Thomas has witnessed firsthand a raft of fundamental changes in the way news is gathered and reported. Today, she sees a growing -- and alarming -- reluctance among...
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
by Christopher Hitchens
Publisher Comments "Art of Mentoring" seriesIn the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents. Who better to speak to...
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Rising from the Plains
by John Mcphee Publisher Comments Rising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the fortieth parallel—a series gathering under the...
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Years with Ross (Perennial Classics)
by James Thurber Publisher Comments A Dime a Dozen "Harold Ross died" December 6, 1951, "exactly one month after his" fifty-ninth birthday. In November of the following year the New Yorker entertained the editors of "Punch" and some of its outstanding artists and writers. I was in Bermuda...
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The Best American Magazine Writing (Best American Magazine Writing)
by American Society Of Publisher Comments In the magazine world, no recognition is more highly coveted than an "Ellie," presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors. The finalists and winners are chosen from more than a thousand submissions, and the stories in this anthology represent...
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A Drinking Life: A Memoir
by Pete Hamill Publisher Comments Rugged prose and a rare attention to telling detail have long distinguished Pete Hamill's unique brand of journalism and his universally well received fiction. Twenty years after his last drink, he examines the years he spent as a full-time member of the...
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Media Control the Spectacular 2ND Edition
by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Chomsky's classic back-pocket primer on U.S. government propaganda and media bias, now available in an edition expanded to include his comments regarding media coverage of terrorism and U.S. foreign policy in a post-September 11 world....
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The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries (P.S.)
by Marilyn Johnson Publisher Comments Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world— so she sought out the best obits in the English language and the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. She surveyed the darkest corners of...
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Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists
by Eleanor Mills Publisher Comments Since their emergence as a journalistic force after the world wars, women have continued to break new ground in newspapers and magazines, redefining the world as we see it as well as the craft as it applied. Many of the pieces in "Journalistas feel...
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Coming Into the Country
by John McPhee Publisher Comments "Coming into the Country "is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with...
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A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland
by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments In his memoir, Brokaw writes of his quintessential American experience, from his parents' life in the thirties to his early journalism career in the tumultuous sixties to the present day....
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Hooking Up
by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments In Hooking Up, Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast observing 'the lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000.' From teenage sexual manners and mores to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard...
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Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite
by Bernard Goldberg Publisher Comments In his #1 bestseller, Bias, Emmy Award-winning journalist Bernard Goldberg exposed the liberal biases of the mainstream American media. Now he goes even further, not only taking on Big Journalism, but offering a 12-step program to bring balance back to...
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