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Audition: A Memoir
by Barbara Walters  Publisher Comments Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: "I want to be you." My stock reply is always: "Then you have to take the whole package." And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : a Savage Journey To the Heart of the American Dream (71 Edition)
by Hunter S. Thompson 
Powells.com Staff Pick When Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought the Modern Library in 1925, its mission was ? and still is ? to provide attractive, hardcover editions of important works of literature and thought to serious readers on a budget. The Modern Library became...
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Hell's Angels (96 Edition)
by Hunter S. Thompson Publisher Comments "California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and...
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The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Fear, Secrecy, and Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision Making, Degrade Our Democracy, and Put Our Country and Our World in Peril
by Al Gore
Powells.com Staff Pick More astute and timely observations from my favorite candidate who isn't running for President. Recommended by Ted, Powells.com...
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The Tender Bar: A Memoir
by J R Moehringer
Publisher Comments 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...
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Rum Diary (98 Edition)
by Hunter S. Thompson Publisher Comments Begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. Exuberant and...
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My Battle of Algiers: A Memoir
by Ted Morgan Publisher Comments In My Battle of Algiers, an eminent historian and biographer recounts his own experiences in the savage Algerian War, an event all too reminiscent of America's present difficulties in Iraq. Ted Morgan recalls a war that we would do well not to forget. A...
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I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the
by Mike Edison Publisher Comments I Have Fun Everywhere I Go is a rollicking, high-octane, always irreverent journey through the seamy side of the publishing industry. Mike Edison's résumé spans twenty years and a slew of notorious titles, including Screw, High Times, Penthouse,...
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Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
by Jim Sheeler Publisher Comments They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. It begins with a knock at the door. aThe curtains pull away. They come to the door. And they know. They always know, a said Major Steve Beck...
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Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq
by Dahr Jamail
Powells.com Staff Pick George Orwell once said, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." No one has captured that revolutionary spirit more than Dahr Jamail. Jamail, like all of us, heard the lies the media was spewing to justify the U.S....
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UnSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson Publisher Comments Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. The news media–once the vaunted watchdogs of our republic–are often too timid or distracted to identify...
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Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie
by Rachel Corrie Publisher Comments One young woman's voice — intense and poetic — grapples with universal ideas as it chronicles a personal journey cut short. How do we find our way in the world? How do our actions affect others? What do we owe the rest of humanity? These...
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Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media
by Robert W Mcchesney Publisher Comments In this brilliant new book, Robert W. McChesney, one of America's leading media scholars and activists, brings both his authoritative analysis and unparalleled historical knowledge to bear on the growing but only fitfully successful field of media...
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Writings From the New Yorker 1925-1976
by E. B. White Publisher Comments A delightful, witty, spirited collection of short pieces and essays by the inimitable E. B. White....
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Medium Is the Massage : an Inventory of Effects (96 Edition)
by Marshall Mcluhan Synopsis Now more relevant than ever, as McLuhan's foresights about the impact of new media are actualized at unprecedented speeds, this text portrays technologies as an extension of man, illustrating how our senses and preceptions are altered as these devices...
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Headless Body in Topless Bar: The Best Headlines from America's Favorite Newspaper
by Staff Of The New Yor Publisher Comments Either you love them or you hate them, but everybody agrees on one thing—there's just nothing like a New York Post headline. Gathered here for the first time ever are the best of the best from the paper's two-hundred-year history. Whether...
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Publisher Comments In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their...
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The Rebels' Hour
by Lieve Joris Publisher Comments In The Rebels’ Hour, world renowned journalist Lieve Joris illuminates the dark heart of contemporary Congo through the prism of one lonely and complicated rebel leader who becomes a high ranking general in the Congolese army. When Assani, a young...
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Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson
by Jann Wenner Publisher Comments Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -...
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The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup
by Susan Orlean
Synopsis Now in paperback comes the wonderfully entertaining, bestselling collection of the "New Yorker" writer's brightest profiles. "A voyeur's delight: expertly framed windows into the cosmology of the human experience . . . [these profiles] reintroduce...
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