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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 $17.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Between 1959 and 1990, Thompson wrote a series of dizzying and dazzling essays, here collected in "Songs of the Doomed." Brilliant, hilarious, defiant, the pieces chart the course of American politics and culture over four decades--from the soaring highs... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jerry Mander Publisher Comments A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous -- to personal health and sanity, to the... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Toby Young Publisher Comments In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan--Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour--so why couldn't he?But things didn't quite go according... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $15.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Mcphee Publisher Comments First published in book form 1985, "Table of Contents "is a collection of eight pieces written by John McPhee between 1981 and 1984. Geographically and thematically, they range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephones... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Schorr Publisher Comments He has covered and analyzed nearly every major event of our time: the founding of NATO, the building of the Berlin Wall, the 1950s McCarthy hearings, and the 1990s Clinton impeachment hearings. As both a national and international eyewitness, Daniel... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Indisputably a literary milestone, the public revelation of the private and most intimate letters of Hunter S. Thompson lays bare--better than even the most in-depth biography could ever do--the development, growth, and genius of one of America's most... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by E. B. White Publisher Comments A delightful, witty, spirited collection of short pieces and essays by the inimitable E. B. White.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Cay Johnston Publisher Comments One of the country's top investigative reporters reveals how the richest 1 percent of the country has rigged the tax code and other laws in its favor. Since the mid-1970s, there has been a dramatic shift in America's socioeconomic system, one that... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Associated Press Publisher Comments More people write for the Associated Press than for any newspaper in the world, and more writers --over 1,750,000--have bought The AP Stylebook than any other journalism reference. It provides facts and references for reporters, and defines usage... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments In the second of a three-volume collection of the never-before-published letters of the creator of Gonzo journalism, one of the great literary icons of our time presents a truly raw, revolutionary, eyewitness account of the years from 1968 to 1976... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Helen Thomas Publisher Comments In the course of more than sixty years spent covering Washington politics, Helen Thomas has witnessed firsthand a raft of fundamental changes in the way news is gathered and reported. Today, she sees a growing -- and alarming -- reluctance among... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mike Wallace Synopsis At the age of 87, Mike Wallace is a legendary figure in broadcast journalism. Now, after 60 years of reporting on important events around the world, he shares his personal stories about the incredible range of celebrities, newsmakers, criminals, and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by P J Orourke Publisher Comments In On The Wealth of Nations, America’s most provocative satirist, P. J. O’Rourke, reads Adam Smith’s revolutionary The Wealth of Nations so you don’t have to. Recognized almost instantly on its publication in 1776 as the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Candace Bushnell Publisher Comments Bushnell's "New York Times" bestseller that launched the HBO series that became a cultural phenomenon celebrates its tenth anniversary and is now available in mass-market paperback.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Angell
Powells.com Staff Pick This wonderful collection of personal anecdotes by the New Yorker magazine writer and baseball chronicler comes together into a vivid portrait of a life well lived. Angell is witty and urbane. He deftly balances the deeply felt with a delightful, light... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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