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Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan Staff Pick I love collections of essays. I almost always have one (or two or three) in a pile on my bedside table. But not since I first read A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace have I loved a book of essays as much as I loved... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News by Dan Rather Publisher Comments This memoir by Dan Rather -- one of the most pre-eminent journalists of our time -- is told in a straightforward and conversational manner so that you hear his distinctive voice on every page. Rather, -- who has won every prestigious journalism award in... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments Most who have observed Christopher Hitchens over the years would agree that he possesses a ferocious intellect and is unafraid to tackle the most contentious subjects. Now 60, English-born and American by adoption; all atheist and partly Jewish; bohemian... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments "An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. “An astonishing book” (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, and the 1960s.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fraud by David Rakoff Publisher Comments You've heard him on This American Life! Now read his book! Wherever he is, David Rakoff is a fish out of water. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, playing... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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You Are Being Lied to: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths by Russell Kick Publisher Comments You Are Being Lied Tois a massive collection of articles that ruthlessly destroy the distortions, myths, and outright lies that are fed to us by the government, the media, corporations, history books, organized religion, science and medicine, and society... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine with DVD-ROMs by New Yorker Staff Pick The title says it all. This superb — nay, essential — set of eight DVD-ROMs includes everything ever printed in every issue of the New Yorker, right down to the vintage advertisements. The content is searchable in every way possible from your... (read more) List Price $100.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Friends Talking in the Night by Philip Hamburger Publisher Comments From a writer of astonishing versatility, this wonderfully rich collection of pieces is both a memoir of Philip Hamburger's writing life and a vivid and various record of the world he has lived in. Hamburger first went to work for The New Yorker in 1939,... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Writer's Life by Gay Talese Publisher Comments The inner workings of a writer's life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life —the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography (Books That Changed the World) by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments Thomas Paines "Rights of Man" has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted, but Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. In this book, he demonstrates how Paines book forms the philosophical... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 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... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich Publisher Comments A gripping story of four remarkable young men—photographers, friends and rivals—who band together for protection in the final, violent days of white rule in South Africa.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.95 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Jay Allison Publisher Comments A welcome change from the sloganeering, political mudslinging and products of spin doctors.--The Philadelphia Inquirer Based on the NPR series of the same name, This I Believe features eighty Americans--from the famous to the unknown--completing the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics by P J O'rourke Publisher Comments America's favorite political humorist leads readers on a hysterical whirlwind tour, from the "good capitalism" of Wall Street to the "bad socialism" of Cuba, in search of an answer to the age-old question: "Why do some places prosper and thrive, while... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Alleluia America!: an Irish Journalist in Bush Country by Carole Coleman Publisher Comments From 2000 to 2004 Carole Coleman was the Washington correspondent for Ireland's national broadcaster. RTE. In June 2004. on the eve of Bush's visit to Ireland, she was given the opportunity to conduct a ten-minute interview with him. If the president's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Broadcasts from the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America Into War by Philip M Seib Publisher Comments With the words This is London, Edward R. Murrow's groundbreaking radio broadcasts from 1939 to 1941 brought the blitz into America's living rooms. Countering the tide of U.S. isolationism, Murrow told his huge audience that the United States could not... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.48 Used - Hardcover
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