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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 “If your books subtitle is Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World, you have a lot to live up to—and somehow Mike Edison does .... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Personal History by Katharine Graham Publisher Comments In this critically acclaimed memoir, the woman who piloted the Washington Post through the crises of the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and a pressmen's strike and turned it into a great newspaper now tells her story with courage, candor, and dignity... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Remembering Denny by Calvin Trillin Publisher Comments A reissue of Calvin Trillin's memoir of his relationship with a brilliant but tragic Yale classmate that is also a rumination on social change in the 1950s and 1960s Remembering Denny is perhaps Calvin Trillin's most inspired and powerful book: a memoir... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Coming Into the Country by John McPhee Publisher Comments Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) by Peter Sagal Publisher Comments Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are. Orso everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated radio host—the man who puts the second "l" in "vanilla"—decided to find out if it's true. From strip clubs to... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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About Alice by Calvin Trillin Publisher Comments In Calvin Trillin's antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day and the mother who thought that if you didn't go to every performance of your child's school play, the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Half Empty by David Rakoff Publisher Comments The inimitably witty David Rakoff, New York Times bestselling author of Don't Get Too Comfortable, defends the commonsensical notion that you should always assume the worst, because you’ll never be disappointed. In this deeply funny (and, no... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again by Robert W Mcchesney Publisher Comments American journalism is collapsing as newspapers and magazines fail and scores of reporters are laid off across the country. Conventional wisdom says the Internet is to blame, but veteran journalists and media critics Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Encounters with the Archdruid by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper Publisher Comments Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gonzo by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Gonzo is a tour de force that will take you into the world of American writer and iconoclast Hunter S. Thompson.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home by Caitlin Shetterly Publisher Comments “Caitlin Shetterly’s Made for You and Me is a beautiful, moving, haunting, and funny memoir about what really counts. It moves deftly and lightly between the west coast and the east coast, and frustration and hope, with pointed, buoyant lines... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Family Man by Calvin Trillin Publisher Comments Calvin Trillin begins his wise and charming ruminations on family by stating the sum total of his child-rearing advice: "Try to get one that doesn't spit up. Otherwise, you're on your own." Suspicious of any child-rearing theories beyond "Your children... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression by David Wallis Publisher Comments Think you live in a society with a free press? These celebrated cartoonists and illustrators found out otherwise. Whether blasting Bush for his "Bring 'em on!" speech, spanking pedophile priests, questioning capital punishment, debating the disputed 2000... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Letter from America, 1946-2004. Alistair Cooke by Alistair Cooke Publisher Comments For over half a century, Alistair Cooke entertained and informed millions of listeners around the world in his weekly BBC radio program Letter from America. An outstanding observer of the American scene, he became one of the world's best-loved... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Tragedy and Farce (05 Edition) by Nichols Publisher Comments How American media are failing our democracy, by the authors Bill Moyers calls "the Paul Revere and Tom Paine of our time." "As this book makes clear, the problem is deeper than the administration or the right-wing echo chamber…the very structure of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Strong West Wind: A Memoir by Gail Caldwell Publisher Comments In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gonzo Papers #0004: Better Than Sex by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments America's greatest gonzo hits the hustings in this hilarious and timely report on last year's hideous race for the White House. The inimitable Thompson takes us on his special brand of a surreal campaign swing--and relives the lowlights, oddities... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers by James Oshea Publisher Comments In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it comprised the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive into bankruptcy and public scandal? In The Deal From Hell, veteran Tribune and Los... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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