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  • The Imperial Messenger

    Thomas Friedman at Work

    Series series Counterblasts
    Factual errors, ham-fisted analysis, and contradictory assertions—compounded by a penchant for mixed metaphors and name-dropping—distinguish the work of Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman. The Imperial Messenger reveals the true value of this media darling, a risible writer whose success tells us much about the failures of contemporary journalism. Belén ... Leer más

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  • Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past

    Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past

    The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalísimo Francisco Franco? The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads has finally broken what Spaniards call "the pact of forgetting". At this charged moment, ... Leer más

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  • A Hope in the Unseen

    An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

    de Ron Suskind ...
    The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair.In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate was well into double digits and just 80 students out ... Leer más

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  • The Word Detective

    Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary

    de John Simpson ...
    Can you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you?The answers to all of these questions -- and a great many more -- can be found in the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary ... Leer más

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  • You Were Never in Chicago

    Series series Chicago Visions and Revisions
    This "rollicking newspaperman's memoir" offers a personal tour of Chicago's cultural history and makes "a strong case for Second City exceptionalism" ( The New York Times).In 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City." From the skyline to garbage collection, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses ... Leer más

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  • On the Grand Trunk Road

    A Journey into South Asia

    de Steve Coll ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap,a trek across a socially and politically damaged South AsiaBestselling author Steve Coll is one of the preeminent journalists of the twenty-first century. His last two books, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars and New York Times bestseller The Bin Ladens, have been praised for their creative insight and ... Leer más

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  • The Publisher

    de Alan Brinkley ...
    Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of missionaries, Henry Luce spent his childhood in rural China, yet he glimpsed a milieu of power altogether ... Leer más

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  • That's Not Funny, That's Sick

    The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream

    de Ellin Stein ...
    "Smart, knowing, and deeply reported, the definitive history of one of modern American humor’s wellsprings." —Kurt Andersen, author of Fantasyland, host of NPR’s Studio 360Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called The National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose amalgamation of fellow satirists including ... Leer más

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  • Woodward and Bernstein

    Life in the Shadow of Watergate

    Based on new interviews and never-before-seen archival materials, Woodward and Bernstein takes a fresh, thought-provoking look at this unlikely journalistic duo. Thrown together by fate or luck, Woodward and Bernstein changed the face of journalism and the American presidency. For the first time, Shepard separates myth from reality as she traces the lives of the iconic journalists before and after ... Leer más

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  • Carolina Israelite

    How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights

    This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903–1981) — author of the 1958 national best-seller Only in America — illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s.After recounting Golden’s childhood ... Leer más

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  • The Canister X Transmission: Year One - Collected Newsletters

    de A.P. Fuchs ...
    Begin transmission . . .Running weekly from May 2014 to May 2015, The Canister X Transmission was sent via email to readers worldwide.Serving as a source of inspiration for writers and artists everywhere, its impact was made known by the replies sent to A.P. Fuchs's inbox week-to-week.The newsletter covered four main topics:The Creative Thought of the Week, in which Fuchs added his two cents on ... Leer más

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