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Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein Publisher Comments From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments The "gonzo" political journalist presents his frankly subjective observations on the personalities and political machinations of the 1972 presidential campaign, in a new edition of the classic account of the dark side of American politics. Reprint.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Democracy in Print: The Best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 by Matthew Rothschild Publisher Comments Democracy in Print captures many of the most influential voices from a century of United States history who have spoken out on the struggle to make real the promise of democracy for all Americans, railed against abuses of corporate power, renounced... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition by The Onion Staff Pick The folks at the Onion are up to their usual shenanigans, this time bringing us an informative and wildly inaccurate atlas that fans will love.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Radio on : a Listeners Diary (98 Edition) by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments There are approximately 502 million radios in America. For this savvy, far-reaching diary, celebrated journalist and author Vowell turned hers on and listened—closely, critically, creatively—for an entire year. As a series of impressions and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga 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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The John McPhee Reader by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author’s first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility,... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 by David Rakoff Publisher Comments Rakoff takes readers on a bitingly funny grand tour of the culture of excess. He shows that far from being bobos in paradise, mankind is in a special circle of gilded-age hell.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee Publisher Comments This is a book about people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation. John McPhee rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Liberty and the News (James Madison Library in American Politics) by Walter Lippmann Review Why republish this old book? In its new format, it features an introduction by Lippmann biographer Ronald Steel, who economically places the book in the context of its day. There's also an afterword, nearly half as long as Lippmann's book, by the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments by Celia Rivenbark Publisher Comments From the wickedly hilarious pen of Southern humorist Celia Rivenbark comes a collection of essays that brings to mind Dave Barry (in high heels) or Jeff Foxworthy (in a prom dress). Step into the wacky world of womanless wedding fund-raisers, in which... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The New York Times: The Complete Front Pages: 1851-2008 by Bill Keller Publisher Comments This stunning and cutting-edge package provides access to the world as reflected in its most influential and respected newspaper. From wars and political assassinations to social movements and space exploration, all the news that is fit to print (or... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Hunter S. Thompson: An Insider's View of Deranged, Depraved, Drugged Out Brilliance by Jay Cowan Publisher Comments From military sportswriter to roving correspondent for the National Observer, from quasi Hells Angel to counterculture author and gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson led a life of legend. Hunter S. Thompson: The Glory Years tells the remarkable insiders... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Associated Press Guide To Newswriting 3RD Edition by Associated Press Publisher Comments Offers a practical review of the essentials of good journalistic writing.... (read more) List Price $12.85 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments Bestselling author Tom Wolfe introduces the 1960s through essays about extravagant new styles of life, the Beatles, bouffant hairdos, Kar Kustomizers, and much more.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Reporter's Life by Walter Cronkite Publisher Comments "IMMEDIATELY ENGROSSING . . . [A] SPLENDID MEMOIR."<BR>--The Wall Street Journal <BR>"Run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and treat yourself to the most heartwarming, nostalgia-producing book you will have read in many a year."<BR>-... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Take Big Bites by Linda Ellerbee Publisher Comments Linda Ellerbee's first two books were instant classics: And So It Goes, a hilarious, unblinking look at television journalism that spent months as a bestseller; and Move On, a wry, intimate look at a woman in her time that became a milestone in... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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From Our Foreign Correspondent: A Celebration of Fifty Years of the BBC Radio Programme by Tony Grant Publisher Comments You must read From Our Own Correspondent: 50 years of dispatches from the Radio 4 programme, displaying its depth, variety and brilliance--London Sunday Times You don't lose the detail in FOOC: it luxuriates in full, florid complexity.--Guardian The... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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