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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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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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Moyers on Democracy
by Bill Moyers Publisher Comments Bill Moyers on America today: “Here in the first decade of the twenty-first century the story that becomes America’s dominant narrative will shape our collective imagination and our politics for a long time to come. In the searching of our...
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Electric Kool-aid Acid Test (68 Edition)
by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD...
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Only Love Can Break Your Heart
by David Samuels Publisher Comments A brilliant journalist takes us on a skewed odyssey through an american populated by idealists and outsiders in his first book, reminiscent of the classic new journalism of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion. Writing for Harper's magazine and the New Yorker over...
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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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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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Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventionsof 1968 (New York Review Books Classics)
by Norman Mailer Publisher Comments 1968. The Vietnam War was raging. President Lyndon Johnson, facing a challenge in his own Democratic party from the maverick anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy, announced that he would not seek a second term. In April, Martin Luther King was assassinated,...
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Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
by David Rakoff
Powells.com Staff Pick "Don't Get Too Comfortable is a gratifying reading experience for the misanthrope in all of us. Rakoff has a style and wit that is appropriately cruel towards its deserving targets. If you actually enjoy foie gras, performance art, or stalking...
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Essays of E. B. White (Perennial Classics)
by E B White Publisher Comments Good-bye to Forty-eighth StreetTurtle Bay, November 12, 1957 For some weeks now I have been engaged in dispersing the contents of this apartment, trying to persuade hundreds of inanimate objects to scatter and leave me alone. It is not a simple matter. I...
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War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq
by Richard Engel Publisher Comments In the most dramatic and intimate account of battle reporting since Michael Herrs classic Dispatches, NBC Newss award-winning Middle East Bureau Chief, Richard Engel, offers an unvarnished and often emotional account of five years in Iraq. Engel is the...
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Sex and the City
by Candace Bushnell Publisher Comments Bushnell's "New York Times" bestseller that launched the HBO series that became a cultural phenomenon celebrates its tenth anniversary and is now available in mass-market paperback....
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Uncommon Carriers
by John Mcphee Publisher Comments Here, at his adventurous best, the author chronicles his eight years of being out and about with people who work in freight transportation. The prose is distinguished, as always, by its author's warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character....
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Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
by Christophe Hitchens Publisher Comments Thomas Paine was one of the greatest advocates of freedom in history, and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke’s attack on the French Revolution, Paine&#...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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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Library of America #181: A.J. Liebling: World War II Writings
by Pete Hamill Publisher Comments One of the most gifted and influential American journalists of the 20th century, A. J. Liebling spent five years reporting the dramatic events and myriad individual stories of World War II. As a correspondent for The New Yorker, Liebling wrote with a...
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Running to the Mountain: A Midlife Adventure
by Jon Katz Publisher Comments Jon Katz, a respected author and family man, arrived at age 50 feeling sedentary and uneasy. His wife was busy pursuing her own demanding career, his daughter was preparing to leave home for college, and his writing career had taken a dubious turn. A...
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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments In a searching examination of the Teresa cult, the author of International Territory: The United Nations 1945-95 passes his final caustic judgement on Mother Teresa, reviewing her surrogate role as propagandist for the most extreme views, and concluding...
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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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Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg (Vintage)
by Rick Bragg Publisher Comments With his bestselling All Over but the Shoutin', Rick Bragg gave us memorable stories of his own childhood. In Somebody Told Me, he offers the best of his work as a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist writing the remarkable stories of others. <BR>For...
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