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by Helen Thomas  Publisher Comments In a natural follow-up to her national bestseller Front Row at the White House, the dean of the White House press corps presents a vivid and personal chronicle of the American presidency. Currently a columnist for Hearst and a former White House bureau... (read more)  List Price $14.00 Your price $3.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Bill Moyers Publisher Comments Bill Moyers's vision for America in this crucial election year. "Our nation can no more survive as half democracy and half oligarchy than it could survive 'half slave and half free." — from Moyers on America Over the years millions of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Norman Mailer Publisher Comments By scrutinising the administration's words and actions leading up to the current crisis, Mailer carefully builds his case that Bush is pursuing war not in the name of security or anti-terrorism or human rights but in an undeclared yet fully realised... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith Serrin Publisher Comments In collecting the kind of reportage that all too rarely appears in this age of media triviality and corporate conglomeration, Muckraking! documents an alternative journalistic tradition, one marked by depth of vision, passion for change, and bravery... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Rakoff 
Powells.com 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 $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Flynn Publisher Comments On September 11, 2001, journalist Tom Flynn set off on his bike toward the World Trade Towers not knowing what he was riding into. Bikeman is one man's journey back to the horrors of that day and to the humanity that somehow emerged from the dust and the... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price $6.95 (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 Daniel Okrent Publisher Comments From December 2003 to May 2005, Daniel Okrent served as the New York Times' first "Public Editor," a position created following the newspaper's Jayson Blair scandal and the tumultuous reign and resignation of Howell Raines as Executive Editor. His... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments The phrase radical chic was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongrous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between... (read more) Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip Green Publisher Comments In this insightful new book, media critic Philip Green explores the true nature of television and the effect this TV addiction has on American democracy. He argues that mainstream shows are little more than extended commercials, dominated by advertising... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by P. J. O'Rourke Publisher Comments With his latest national best seller, Peace Kills, P.J. O'Rourke casts his ever-shrewd and mordant eye on America's latest adventures in warfare. Imperialism has never been more fun. To unravel the mysteries of war, O'Rourke first visits Kosovo... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (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 Eric Alterman
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-309) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rick Bragg Publisher Comments With his bestselling All Over but the Shoutin', Rick Bragg gave us memorable stories of his own childhood. In Somebody Told Me, he offers the best of his work as a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist writing the remarkable stories of others. <BR>For... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Mcphee Publisher Comments Rising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the fortieth parallel—a series gathering under the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stanley Cloud Publisher Comments Publishers Weekly described The Murrow Boys as "a lively, colloquial history of broadcast journalism that is so exciting one's impulse is to read it in a single sitting." It tells the swashbuckling tale of Edward R. Murrow and his legendary band of CBS... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and that. Third base was oral sex. Home plate was going all the way. That was yesterday. Here in... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $1.99 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Christophe Hitchens Publisher Comments A Washington journalist follows the rise of Bill Clinton and proposes that, if successful, the Clinton machine will become the model of pseudo-democracy for the coming century.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jim Knipfel Synopsis The critically acclaimed author of "Slackjaw" chronicles the six months he spent in a Minneapolis psychiatric ward, where he was left to become his own therapeutic counsel after failing at another suicide attempt. In his effort to regain sanity, Knipfel... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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