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When you watch the news on TV, you see only what's on the screen. You don't see what happened to make it happen. This new book, by a broadcast news veteran, rips away the curtain and helps you understand the humanity behind the storyteller. Ross Becker began his professional journalism career at a radio station in Wisconsin where he grew up and ended up reporting on some of the biggest stories of the '70s, '80s, '90s, and 2000s. Each story is part...
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From Martha Gellhorn's critically acclaimed biographer, the first collected letters of this defining figure of the twentieth-century
Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international conflict between the Spanish Civil War and the end of the Cold War. While Gellhorn's wartime dispatches rank among the best of the century, her personal letters are their equal: as vivid and fascinating...
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I have tried my best to demonstrate how universal peace can be debated on paper when I claim that I have no enemies. If I have lost in touch with my friends, I say I want to extend the hands of friendship to my readers through my pen. Yes all is never lost on making friends. All is usually lost in wars. Even humanity. I am one lucky dude who can maintain humanity and who can talk about it in broken ideas and broken words. Eventually I am happy to...
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"A riveting memoir of years of living dangerously."-Kirkus Reviews
For the countless readers who have admired Philip Caputo's classic memoir of Vietnam, A Rumor of War, here is his powerful recounting of his life and adventures, updated with a foreword that assesses the state of the world and the journalist's art.
As a journalist, Caputo has covered many of the world's troubles, and in Means of Escape, he tells the reader in moving and clear-eyed...
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Wild Surmise Productions
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[2023]
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Two literary legends, writer Robert Caro and his longtime editor, Robert Gottlieb, have worked together to create some of the greatest non-fiction books in history. Now 86, Caro is determined to complete the final volume of his masterwork, The Years of Lyndon Johnson; Gottlieb, 91, wants to edit it. With humor and insight, this unique double portrait reveals the work habits, peculiarities, and professional joys of these two ferocious intellects as...