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My Mother's Ghost
My Mother's Ghost
by Fergus M Bordewich
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A luminous memoir of how the author's involvement in his mother's accidental death reshaped the emotional landscape of his childhood and adult life. In 1962, at the age of fourteen, Fergus Bordewich's life was shattered as his mother attempted to jump... (read more)

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Making the News, Taking the News: From NBC to the Ford White House
Making the News, Taking the News: From NBC to the Ford White House
by Ron Nessen
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For fifteen years, Ron Nessen enjoyed an extraordinary career covering the major national events of the 1960s and '70s for NBC News, and later serving as White House press secretary to President Gerald R. Ford. Making the News, Taking the News remembers... (read more)

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Out of My Mind
Out of My Mind
by Andy Rooney
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Every Sunday evening, millions of viewers tune in to 60 Minutes to hear Andy Rooney riff on everything from coffee percolators to the state of the union. Millions more read his weekly newspaper column. Why? Because Rooney tells it like it is. But Rooney... (read more)

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A Life in Letters: Ann Landers' Letters to Her Only Child
A Life in Letters: Ann Landers' Letters to Her Only Child
by Ann Landers
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America's most beloved columnist shares forty years of advice through letters to her daughter, collected here for the first time. This is simply a collection of a mother's letters to her only daughter--except that the mother is Ann Landers Esther "Eppie"... (read more)

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Library of America #191: A.J. Liebling: The Sweet Science and Other Writings
Library of America #191: A.J. Liebling: The Sweet Science and Other Writings
by A J Liebling
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For the first time in one volume, Pete Hamill presents five great books that demonstrate A. J. Liebling's extraordinary vitality, humor, and versatility as a writer. Named the best sports book of all time by Sports Illustrated in 2002, The Sweet Science (... (read more)

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Personal History
Personal History
by Katharine Graham
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The classic Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography.... (read more)

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Irons in the Fire
Irons in the Fire
by John Mcphee
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This acclaimed collection of essays begins with the title essay and a trip to Nevada, where, in the company of a brand inspector, John McPhee discovers that cattle rustling is not just history. John McPhee is the author of more than 25 books, including... (read more)

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Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times
Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times
by Robert Waterman McChesney
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Robert McChesney argues that the media, far from providing a bedrock for freedom and democracy, have become a significant antidemocratic force in the United States and, to varying degrees, worldwide.<P>Rich Media, Poor Democracy addresses the... (read more)

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The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken
The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken
by Terry Teachout
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Chapter One "I'd Have Butchered Beautifully" "Birth of a Bourgeois, 1880-1899 In 1883, when Henry Louis Mencken was nearly three years old, August, his father, bought a three-story row house that looked out on Union Square, a small park close to what was... (read more)

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American Freak Show: The Completely Fabricated Stories of Our New National Treasures
American Freak Show: The Completely Fabricated Stories of Our New National Treasures
by Willie Geist
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“Willie Geist is one part Twain, one part Carrot Top, two parts Heckle, and one part Jeckle.” —John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, authors of Game Change “I’ve read laminated airplane safety cards with greater intellectual... (read more)

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Power of News the History of Reuters 2ND Edition
Power of News the History of Reuters 2ND Edition
by Donald Read
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This book is a fascinating account of Reuters, the international news agency which for almost 150 years has brought us history as it is being made. Donald Read's authoritative and readable history of Reuters shows how the company has always been in the... (read more)

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Suburgatory: Twisted Tales from Darkest Suburbia
Suburgatory: Twisted Tales from Darkest Suburbia
by Linda Keenan
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Suburgatory lampoons the absurdities and contradictions that Linda Keenan has witnessed since leaving New York City, where she was a thoroughly urban CNN news producer for seven years, and settling down as a hapless stay-at-home suburban mother. The... (read more)

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We Are Our Mothers' Daughters (Rev 10 Edition)
We Are Our Mothers' Daughters (Rev 10 Edition)
by Cokie Roberts
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In this revised and expanded tenth-anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller, renowned political commentator Cokie Roberts once again examines the nature of women's roles through the revealing lens of her personal experience. From mother... (read more)

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Broadcasts from the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America Into War
Broadcasts from the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America Into War
by Philip Seib
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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)

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I Am My Father's Daughter: Living a Life Without Secrets
I Am My Father's Daughter: Living a Life Without Secrets
by Maria Elena Salinas
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From an Emmy Award-winning news anchor comes a fascinating memoir about work, family, and the hidden secrets that ultimately shape our lives. Five nights a week, María Elena Salinas delivers the news to millions of television viewers. But when the... (read more)

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Best Business Crime Writing of the Year
Best Business Crime Writing of the Year
by James Surowiecki
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A year ago it would have been difficult to conceive of an anthology of stories solely devoted to corporate malfeasance. Today, alas, the challenge has been to keep it confined to one volume. From P.J. O'Rourke's hilarious "How to Stuff a Wild Enron," in... (read more)

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Necessary Sins: A Memoir
Necessary Sins: A Memoir
by Lynn Darling
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When Lynn Darling met Lee Lescaze at the Washington Post, they could not have been more different. He was older, married, more "establishment," a celebrated foreign correspondent and editor. She, who entered Harvard at age sixteen, was a brilliant wild... (read more)

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Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech
Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech
by Craig Silverman
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Winner of the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism! From Craig Silverman, proprietor of www.RegretTheError.com, comes a lively journey through the history of media mistakes via a chronicle of funny, shocking, and often... (read more)

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Mega Media: How Market Forces Are Transforming News
Mega Media: How Market Forces Are Transforming News
by Nancy Maynard
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This report attempts to find an honest and different way to understand the future of news across media. Its assesment begins in the marketplace and follows a maze of business practices back to the newsroom - not to celebrate the economic trends driving... (read more)

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The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect
The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect
by Bill Kovach
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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)

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