Journalism category: 1922 books
Out on Assignment
Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century. Using extraordinary archival research, Alice Fahs unearths a richly networked community of female journalists drawn by the hundreds to major...
The Smear
How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
New York Times Bestseller
Ever wonder how politics turned into a take-no-prisoners blood sport? The New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled pulls back the curtain on the shady world of opposition research and reveals the dirty tricks those in power use to influence your opinions.
Behind...
by Stavridis
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
“The Leader’s Bookshelf” identifies the "Top 50" books that can help anyone become a better leader. The works selected were based on hundreds of interviews with the most senior active and retired four-star U.S. military leaders who identified books from which they gained the special...
Kentucky's Rebel Press
Pro-Confederate Media and the Secession Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Throughout the Civil War, the influence of the popular press and its skillful use of propaganda was extremely significant in Kentucky. Union and Confederate sympathizers were scattered throughout the border slave state, and in 1860, at least twenty-eight of the commonwealth's approximately sixty newspapers...
by John Steinbeck
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2003
A Penguin Classic
More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the Great Depression to Vietnam. Now, this distinctive collection offers a portrait of the artist...
Muckraker
The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead, Britain's First Investigative Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
A major work by a brilliant young biographer, Muckraker details the tenacity and verve of one of Victorian Britain's most compelling characters. Credited with pioneering investigative reporting, W. T. Stead made a career of 'muckraking': revealing horrific practices in the hope of shocking authorities...
Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President
Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2003
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 presidential chronicle. Currently a columnist for Hearst and a former White House bureau chief for UPI, Helen Thomas has covered an unprecedented nine...
Vietnam War Slang
A Dictionary on Historical Principles
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration’s escalation of American military involvement in Southeast Asia and war against North Vietnam. Vietnam War Slang outlines the context behind the slang used by members of the United...
Americans in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918
Accounts of the War from Journalists, Tourists, Troops and Medical Staff
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Belgium in the First World War—the first country invaded, the longest occupied, and when the war finally ended, the first forgotten. In 1914, Belgium was home to a large American colony which included representatives of American companies, artists, writers and diplomats with the American Legation....
Voices of Revolution
The Dissident Press in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2001
Streitmatter tells the stories of dissident American publications and press movements of the last two centuries, and of the colorful individuals behind them. From publications that fought for the disenfranchised to those that promoted social reform, Voices of Revolution examines the abolitionist and...
The Pen Makes a Good Sword
John Forsyth of the Mobile Register
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This book is a biography of Alabama native John Forsyth Jr. and documents his career as a southern newspaper editor during the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction periods. From 1837 to 1877 Forsyth wrote about many of the most important events of the 19th century. He used his various positions...
Through the Looking Glass
China’s Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The convulsive history of foreign journalists in China starts with the newspapers printed in the European Factories of Canton in the 1820s and ends with the Communist revolution in 1949. It also starts with a duel between two editors over the China’s future and ends with a fistfight in Shanghai...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This re-issue of Julian Franklyn's classic dictionary not only defines these expressions but also explains their origin and history. An introductory essay examines the roots and development of rhyming slang. Although many people assume that rhyming slang is exclusively Cockney, Franklyn illustrates...
The Naked Shore
Of the North Sea
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Saturnine and quick-tempered, the formidable North Sea is often overlooked – even by those living within a stone's throw of its steel-grey waters. But as playground, theatre of war and cultural crossing-point, it has shaped the world in myriad ways, forged villains and heroes, and determined the...