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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 $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, & Publishing) by Joseph Williams Publisher Comments This acclaimed book is a master teacher's tested program for turning clumsy prose into clear, powerful, and effective writing. A logical, expert, easy-to-use plan for achieving excellence in expression, Style offers neither simplistic rules nor endless... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Annals of the Former World by John McPhee From Powells.com In 1978, New Yorker science writer John McPhee set out on a series of road trips with prominent geologists. In each case, they remained close to Interstate 80, which spans the country at about the 40th parallel. McPhee's purpose was to write an... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pine Barrens by John Mcphee Publisher Comments Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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100 Events That Shook Our World: A History in Pictures from the Last 100 Years (Life) by Robert Andreas Publisher Comments Using their trademark brilliant photography and informative writing, the editors of "Life" have assembled a fascinating, engrossing volume that captures the happenings and the characters who have fleshed out this saga.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 authors 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, his... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson Publisher Comments They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed one on the street today. These are people who have no empathy, who are manipulative, deceitful, charming, seductive, and delusional. The Psychopath Test is the New York Times... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect by Bill Kovach Publisher Comments In July 1997, twenty-five of America's most influential journalists sat down to try and discover what had happened to their profession in the years between Watergate and Whitewater. What they knew was that the public no longer trusted the press as it... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Inside Reporting : a Practical Guide To the Craft of Journalism (07 - Old Edition) by Tim Harrower Publisher Comments This text does for reporting what Tim Harrower's The Newspaper Designer's Handbook has previously done for design: make it fun and accessible to newcomers. Harrower is an award-winning editor, designer and columnist who has previously taught at Portland... (read more) List Price $90.35 Your price: $61.00 Used - Trade Paper
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All We Know: Three Lives by Lisa Cohen Publisher Comments All We Know is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012 A revelatory biography of three glamorous, complex modern women Esther Murphy was a brilliant New York intellectual who dazzled friends and strangers with an unstoppable flow... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl by Mariane Pearl and Sarah Crichton Publisher Comments In A Mighty Heart, an astonishingly courageous woman tells the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband's life and death. For five weeks the world watched and worried about Danny Pearl, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ava's Man by Rick Bragg Publisher Comments With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin? a national bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he?s writing about his grandfather Charlie... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Reporter's Life by Walter Cronkite Publisher Comments The long-awaited memoirs of America's most trusted journalist describe Cronkite's youth, his early career as a reporter, his work as a war correspondent, and his rise to the pinnacle of television news, sharing his views on the media, news, and the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $1.25 Used - Hardcover
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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments In a frank expose of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman’s mission to the world’s poor. He probes the source of the heroic status bestowed upon an Albanian nun whose only declared wish is to serve God. He asks... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership and Its Threat to Democracy by Elliot D Cohen Publisher Comments Media critics and journalists examine what becomes of diversity and democracy when most of the nation's media outlets are controlled by a handful of corporate conglomerates.... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century by Hunter S Thompson Staff Pick I never thought that old Dr. Gonzo would ever be relevant again. Leave it to a conservative administration to prove me wrong. In this collection of pre- and post-9-11 writings, Kingdom of Fear shows that Thompson can still be witty, provocative and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, and Me by Ralph Steadman Publisher Comments A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice New York Post Required Reading "Enormously entertaining."—The Boston Globe "A pleasant surprise."—The Tampa Tribune "Bizarre and compelling."— Miami New Times "A must read."&... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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