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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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by David Wallis Publisher Comments One hundred political cartoons you wanted to see, but weren't allowed to: all were banned for being too hot to handle. Think you live in a society with a free press? These celebrated cartoonists and illustrators found out otherwise. Whether blasting Bush... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bob Greene Publisher Comments " Growing up in small-town Bexley, Ohio, Bob Greene and his four best friends, Allen, Chuck, Dan, and Jack -- known as ABCD&J -- were inseparable. Of the four, Jack was Bob's very best friend, from the moment he'd befriended Bob on their first day of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (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 Calvin Trillin Publisher Comments Does the Bush Administration sound any better in rhyme? In this biting array of verse, it at least sounds funnier. Calvin Trillin employs everything from a Gilbert and Sullivan style, for describing George Bush’s rescue in the South Carolina... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William Kristol Publisher Comments A collection of the most provocative and insightful writing from the influential conservative magazine the Weekly Standard. Smart, tough, and opinionated, The Weekly Standard has been America's most influential conservative journal since its inception... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Katharine Graham Publisher Comments As a fitting epilogue to a life intimately linked to Washington, D.C., Pulitzer Prize winner Katharine Graham, the woman who transformed The Washington Post into a paper of record, left behind this lovingly collected anthology of writings about the city... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Royce Flippin Publisher Comments The Best American Political Writing 2003 preserves the most incisive, controversial, and entertaining writing about the notable events and people of 2002. In a year engulfed in political controversy, from President Bush’s plans for a preemptive war... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $26.00 Your price $11.95 (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 Andrei Codrescu Publisher Comments Andrei Codrescu takes us cross-country through the withered, yet alluring American urban landscape, visiting New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, Little Rock, San Antonio, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, and Portland, Oregon. He discovers that cities are at the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alistair Cooke Publisher Comments The very best of Alistair Cooke's legendary "Letters From America", taken from the whole of his astonishing career, 1946-2004. Acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time, this is a collection that will be treasured by his millions... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Russell Baker Publisher Comments Undeluded by the roar of what he calls "our national engines of ballyhoo, bushwah, and baloney," Russell Baker reflects on the impact that a gallery of larger-than-life characters--from William Randolph Hearst and Barry Goldwater to Joe DiMaggio and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sheldon Drobny Publisher Comments Road to Air America by Sheldon Drobny, is a candid look behind the scenes of the politics, wealth, and news media that inspired Mr. Drobny's vision and nearly derailed his ability to get America's first all liberal talk-radio network going. From his... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Chapter One"Citzen Reporter" "My reaction to having our speaker today at the National Press Club was the same as a lot of other members," Doug Harbrecht, the club's president and Business Week's Washington bureau chief, told the two hundred journalists... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ken Auletta Publisher Comments From Howell Raines and the New York Times to Roger Ailes and Fox News, America's most celebrated media journalist dissects the people and institutions shaping media, for good and for ill, in a time of profound change. It is said that journalism is a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Fenton Publisher Comments At a time when the world has been blindsided by failures of intelligence, a veteran CBS News correspondent reveals how the news media has betrayed our trust and endangered our democracy. Tom Fenton is the senior European correspondent for CBS News. In... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Al Kuettner Publisher Comments Veteran reporter Al Kuettner begins: You had to walk in the footsteps of these people--black and white--to get some understanding of their deep feelings, their prejudices, the sad deprivation suffered by so many blacks, the fear in whites. You had to... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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