Journalism category: 1922 books
by Louis MacNeice
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments of living through the thirties by a young writer. It is a record of the author's emotional and intellectual experience during those months, the trivia of everyday living set against the events of the world outside, the settlement in Munich and slow defeat in Spain.
Sundays at Eight
25 Years of Stories from C-SPAN'S Q&A and Booknotes
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
For the last 25 years, Sunday nights at 8pm on C-SPAN has been appointment television for many Americans. During that time, host Brian Lamb has invited people to his Capitol Hill studio for hour-long conversations about contemporary society and history. In today's soundbite culture that hour remains...
Think in Public
A Public Books Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions...
by Peter Kurth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson by Peter Kurth (197,000 words, 83 illustrations)
Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961) was America’s first internationally famous female foreign correspondent. Born outside of Buffalo, New York, she graduated from Syracuse University in 1914 and honed...
Telegram from Guernica
The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
On 26 April 1937, in the rubble of the bombed city of Guernica, the world's press scrambled to submit their stories. But one journalist held back, and spent an extra day exploring the scene. His report pointed the finger at secret Nazi involvement in the devastating aerial attack. It was the lead...
Write to Publish
Writing feature articles for magazines, newspapers, and corporate and community publications
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
Write to Publish is the ideal guide for anyone who wants to see their articles in print. Whether you want to make a living as a freelance journalist, edit a newsletter, or contribute occasional articles to a small publication, it gives you all the information you need to get started.
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Exorcising Terror
The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Renowned author Ariel Dorfman, obsessed for twenty-five years with the malignant shadow General Pinochet cast upon Chile and the world, followed every twist and turn of the four year old trial in Great Britain, Spain and Chile as well as in the U.S., the country that had created Pinochet. Told as...
Give Me a Break
How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media...
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Working as a correspondent for 20/20 and Good Morning America, John Stossel confronted dozens of scam artists: from hacks who worked out of their basements to some of America's most powerful executives and leading politicians. His efforts shut down countless crooks -- both famous and obscure. Then...
Late Edition
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
A loving and laughter-filled trip back to a lost American time when the newspaper business was the happiest game in town.
In a warm, affectionate true-life tale, New York Times bestselling author Bob Greene (When We Get to Surf City, Duty, Once Upon a Town) travels back to a place where—when...
Mencken
The American Iconoclast
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
A towering figure on the American cultural landscape, H.L. Mencken stands out as one of our most influential stylists and fearless iconoclasts--the twentieth century's greatest newspaper journalist, a famous wit, and a constant figure of controversy. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers has written the definitive...
by António Lobo Antunes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 13, 2012
La vida en todas sus formas, las anécdotas de infancia y el recuerdo de amigos desaparecidos, una calle de Lisboa...
La vida en todas sus formas, las anécdotas de infancia y el recuerdo de amigos desaparecidos, una calle de Lisboa, un árbol en el jardín familiar, un viaje a Italia, una...
by Patti Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
We all have a story to tell - whether it is a story of a migrant childhood, a difficult past, adopting a child, riding a bike across India, or simply a contemplative year in a garden. With these stories we make sense of ourselves and the world around us.
Memoir - writing about an aspect of...
Running Commentary
The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In the years of cultural and political ferment following World War II, a new generation of Jewish- American writers and thinkers arose to make an indelible mark on American culture. Commentary was their magazine; the place where they and other politically sympathetic intellectuals-Hannah Arendt, Saul...
This Just In
What I Couldn't Tell You on TV
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2004
Bob Schieffer started his reporting career in Texas when he was barely old enough to buy a beer, joined CBS News in 1969, and became one of the few correspondents ever to have covered all four major Washington beats: the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Capitol Hill. Over the past...