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“Kill the Messenger” tells the story of the tragic death of Gary Webb, the controversial newspaper reporter who committed suicide in December 2004. Webb is the former San Jose Mercury News reporter whose 1996 "Dark Alliance" series on the so-called CIA, crack cocaine connection created a firestorm of controversy and led to his resignation from the paper amid escalating attacks on his work by the mainstream media....
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Myanmar, shrouded in mystery, misunderstood and isolated for half a century.
After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012, just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a high-risk atmosphere; a life riddled with chaos and confusion as much as it is with wonder and excitement.
Jessica joins a small team of old-hand expat...
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"Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pieces? Identify the suspect? Journalist Billy Jensen spent 15 years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families of victims. Every story he wrote had one thing in common - it didn't have an ending. The killer was still out there. But after the sudden death of a friend, crime writer Michelle McNamara, Billy became fed up. Following a dark...
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The prominent journalist, historian, and author-an eyewitness to some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century-tells the story of his final years. In the third book of a three-volume series, William Shirer recounts his return to Berlin after the Third Reich's defeat, his shocking firing by CBS News, and his final visit to Paris sixty years after he first lived there as a cub reporter in the 1920s. It paints a bittersweet picture of his...
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2016 Winner of the Gospel Coalition Book Awards
At the time of his death, Christopher Hitchens was the most notorious atheist in the world. And yet, all was not as it seemed. "Nobody is not a divided self, of course," he once told an interviewer, "but I think it's rather strong in my case." Hitchens was a man of many contradictions: a Marxist in youth who longed for acceptance among the social elites; a peacenik who revered the military;...
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"Del Rincón a los Medios" es la autobiografía del reconocido periodista internacional de la canal de television CNN en español Fernando Del Rincon. Es un presentador multi-nominado y ganador del premio Emmy y también dos veces ganador de "Mejor Presentador de Noticias" por la prestigiosa revista People en español.
Esta narrativa está elaborada desde la perspectiva de Fernando mientras reflexiona sobre su éxito como adulto, y cómo no siempre...
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As a kid growing up in Queens, Mike Feder identified with Scheherazade of The Thousand and One Nights: "The idea of someone having to tell a new tale every night to prevent their head getting chopped off seemed sadly familiar to me." Back then, the author's audience was his mentally ill mother, who used to stay in the house all day with the shades drawn, and then insist that her son tell her stories so that she might vicariously experience the world...
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This is a book of anecdotes - a product of my reflections on both my personal and professional life as a young Tunisian female journalist, coming to work for the 'largest broadcaster in the world' and live in the big city, that is London all by myself. The book traces the Tunisia I grew up in in the sixties - few years after it gained its independence from France, where my parents and I belonged to very different worlds. I come from a traditional...
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El trabajo, la amistad, el dinero, el mercado, la fidelidad, la polémica y la literatura. Todos estos factores que intervienen de un modo u otro en el ecosistema del libro se conjugan en estas memorias de Guilermo Schavelzon para recorrer, a través de sus recuerdos y encuentros con autores como Ricardo Piglia, Augusto Roa Bastos, Mario Benedetti, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Máquez, Beatriz Guido, Quino, Juan José Saer, Juan Rulfo, Elena Poniatowska,...
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Au début des années 1980, Martine Maelschalck débute sa carrière de journaliste, sa machine à écrire sous le bras. Elle découvre avec émerveillement un monde qui sent l'encre et le papier, o l'on rédige parfois ses articles sur un coin de table et o les numéros de téléphone fixe valent de l'or. Un univers d'hommes, machos, fumeurs, buveurs, mais bourrés de talent. Vingt-cinq ans plus tard, elle dirigeait la rédaction de L'Écho, pianotait...
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Years after his death, Nick Joaquin's legacy continues to live on. Through his prolific writing-both fiction and non-fiction-this National Artist for Literature awardee has left his mark not only in the Philippine literary and journalistic community, but more importantly, in the hearts and minds of those who hold him dearest-his family and close friends. With black-and-white photo folio.
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Hugh Downs, legendary broadcaster at 20/20 and The Tonight Show, describes how an endlessly creative childhood lead to his career as a radioman and broadcaster. Topics examined include: his father's wayward attempt to automate their entire family home (down to the plumbing), a boyhood attempt to manufacture alcohol (until his Grandmother wrecked the still), being chased by a steam engine, klieg lights and their intense heat, cooking chicken in mud...
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Nationally syndicated columnist and prolific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighborhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Williams tells an "only in America" story of a life of achievement.
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In Buying the Night Flight Georgie Anne Geyer, one of the first American women to cover wars abroad, tells of her thrilling rise from cub reporter to foreign correspondent as she made her way into the male-dominated world of journalism. Born from thirty years of reporting experience, Geyer transports the reader to Guatemala, Cuba, Egypt, Russia, and Cambodia, recounting the history and politics, adventure and extremism of the times with rare insight,...
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Es una intensa evocación testimonial de la historia personal e íntima del Luis Spota, novelista,periodista, funcionario público, dramaturgo, guionista y director de cine. Con sobriedad y equilibrio su pareja de vida, la escritora y actriz Elda Peralta hace un análisis de su compleja personalidad y nos revela el sentido de una vida dedicada a la literatura y el periodismo. Esta edición conmemora el 31 aniversario de la muerte del periodista.
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Get the Summary of William l. Shirer's Gandhi in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "William L. Shirer's book 'Gandhi' provides a detailed account of Mahatma Gandhi's life, his negotiations with the British for Indian autonomy, and his unique approach to revolution through non-violent resistance, or Satyagraha. Shirer, a journalist, covers Gandhi's efforts to end British colonial rule, which exploited India for centuries,...
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"Estos son los bienes que heredo de mi familia por línea de sangre: pazos de artritis, tapias de sordera, latifundios de miopía, secanos de calvicie, orejas de soplillo como blasón y tendencia a discutir a gritos en nuestros Consejos de Administración que son las comidas familiares. Pero lo que más valoro es la inmunidad a las ideologías. Creo que eso salda a mi favor el balance del peso tétrico del patrimonio familiar."
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Good Day! , the critically-acclaimed biography about the legendary Paul Harvey, is now in paperback! In this heartwarming book, author Paul J. Batura tells the all-American story of one of the best-known radio voices in history. From his humble beginnings to his unparalleled career of more than 50 years with ABC radio, Paul Harvey narrated America's story day by day, through wars and peace, through the threat of communism and the crumbling of old...
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