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Fighting for Air

The Battle to Control America's Media

Eric Klinenberg Holt Paperbacks

"A riveting look into every part of what is called the 'media ecosystem,' which includes the Internet as well as newspapers, radio and television. Klinenberg grounds all of his reporting in human terms and gives concrete examples of what happens when too few own too much and, worse, control what information will be disseminated to the people. He also wisely includes news of the victories being achieved by media activists."—Joanne Collings, The Examiner

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And It Don't Stop

The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years

Edited by Raquel Cepeda; Foreword by Nelson George Faber and Faber, Inc.

"An irresistible compilation of the most stylish prose and revelatory interviews of the last twenty-five years on hip-hop, And It Don't Stop is required reading for any serious devotee of contemporary urban culture . . . A glorious reminder of how influential journalists have been, and continue to be, in helping to shape and create this [music]."—Jason King, New York University

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How Race Is Lived in America

Pulling Together, Pulling Apart

Correspondents of The New York Times, Introduction by Joseph Lelyveld Times Books

"This is reporting at its best. This is how sociology should be, a comprehensive view in depth on a major social problem in America. This will be a benchmark for all future inquiries."—Daniel Bell, professor emeritus, Harvard University

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Newsonomics

Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get

Ken Doctor St. Martin's Press

The New News Reports of the death of the news media are highly premature, though you wouldn’t know it from the media’s own headlines. Ken Doctor goes far...

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102 Minutes

The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn Times Books

"102 Minutes does for the September 11 catastrophe what Walter Lord did for the Titanic in his masterpiece, A Night to Remember . . . Searing, poignant, and...

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Hello to All That A Memoir of Zoloft, War, and Peace John Falk Picador His own chemistry was his worst enemy, and it took John Falk to some very strange places--from Garden City, Long Island, to sniper-infested Sarajevo during the...

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Poisoning the Press

Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture

Mark Feldstein Farrar, Straus and Giroux

It is March 1972, and the Nixon White House wants Jack Anderson dead. The syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, the most famous and feared investigative...

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Breaking News

A Memoir

Martin Fletcher St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

During three decades covering wars, revolutions, and natural disasters, Martin Fletcher worked his way from news agency cameraman to Tel Aviv bureau chief for...

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Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody Ian Frazier Picador Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody is a collection of five extended essays that appeared in The New Yorker from 1978 to 1986. In the tradition of A. J. Liebling...

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Naked in Baghdad

The Iraq War and the Aftermath as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels

Anne Garrels; With Letters by Vint Lawrence Picador

"It is fascinating to read about the frustrations, large and small, of an intrepid female reporter."—Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review

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Audie Award Finalist - Nonfiction-Unabridged
Audie Award Winner - Narration Author(s)
Connecticut Book Awards, Nominee - Nonfiction

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BITCHfest

Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine

Edited by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler; Foreword by Margaret Cho Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"As delicious as a day spent with your funniest, smartest friend, this collection is also a call to action, inspiring readers to fight the fear of female power. As the many writers in here show, few wrongs are righted without a bitchfest first."—Cristina Page, author of How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex

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How Sassy Changed My Life

A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time

Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer Faber and Faber, Inc.

For a generation of teenage girls, Sassy magazine was nothing short of revolutionary—so much so that its audience, which stretched from tweens to...

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American Ground

Unbuilding the World Trade Center

William Langewiesche; With a New Afterword by the Author North Point Press

Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times Within...

National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee - General Nonfiction
Helen Bernstein Book Award - Nominee - Excellence in Journalism

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Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Written into History Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from The New York Times Edited and with an Introduction by Anthony Lewis Times Books "Dozens of classy—by turns subversive, condemning, and exploratory—pieces of journalism . . . A stellar collection."—*Kirkus Reviews*

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Just Enough Liebling Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer A. J. Liebling; Introduction by David Remnick North Point Press "A.J. Liebling's appetites were as ample as his frame, and this bulging collection of three decades of his writings for The New Yorker provides a lavish banquet for reader."—Jamy Ian Swiss, New York Post

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Ad Nauseam

A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture

Edited by Carrie McLaren and Jason Torchinsky Faber and Faber, Inc.

With the style and irreverence of Vice magazine and the critique of the corporatocracy that made Naomi Klein’s No Logo a global hit, the cult magazine Stay...

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Gellhorn

A Twentieth-Century Life

Caroline Moorehead Holt Paperbacks

The first major biography of legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn casts "a vivid spotlight on one of the most undercelebrated women of the 20th century"...

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Trade Paperback : $22.00 Buy	Age of Propaganda The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion Revised Edition; Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson Holt Paperbacks Americans create 57% of the world's advertising while representing only 6% of its population; half of our waking hours are spent immersed in the mass media....

Hardcover : $26.99 Buy	Toxic Talk How the Radical Right Has Poisoned America's Airwaves Bill Press Thomas Dunne Books A timely cannon blast at the right-wing media machine and how it subverts the principles of democratic representation Talk radio has done an end run around...

Hardcover : $25.95 Buy	Restless Genius Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism Richard J. Tofel St. Martin's Press The story of the man who transformed The Wall Street Journal and modern media In 1929, Barney Kilgore, fresh from college in small-town Indiana, took a...

Hardcover : $25.95 Buy	Where War Lives A Journey into the Heart of War Pulitzer Prize Winner Paul Watson Rodale Books Paul Watson was born with his right hand missing. To defy people's expectations, he becomes an avid war journalist, traveling to the most dangerous...