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Dark Days in the Newsroom

McCarthyism Aimed at the Press

By: Edward Alwood

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Dark Days in the Newsroom

McCarthyism Aimed at the Press

By: Edward Alwood

Dark Days in the Newsroom traces how journalists became radicalized during the Depression era, only to become targets of Senator Joseph McCarthy and like-minded anti-Communist crusaders during the 1950s. Edward Alwood, a former news correspondent describes this remarkable story of conflict, principle, and personal sacrifice with noticeable élan. He shows how McCarthy's minions pried inside newsrooms thought to be sacrosanct under the First Amendment, and details how journalists mounted a heroic defense of freedom of the press while others secretly enlisted in the government's anti-communist crusade. Relying on previously undisclosed documents from FBI files, along with personal interviews, Alwood provides a richly informed commentary on one of the most significant moments in the history of American journalism. Arguing that the experiences of the McCarthy years profoundly influenced the practice of journalism, he shows how many of the issues faced by journalists in the 1950s prefigure today's conflicts over the right of journalists to protect their sources.

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217

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Temple University Press

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ISBN 10

1592133436

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9781592133437

A Radical History Of Britain

Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries - the men and women who fought for our freedoms

By: Edward Vallance

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A Radical History Of Britain

Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries - the men and women who fought for our freedoms

By: Edward Vallance

From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating study, Edward Vallance traces a national tendency towards revolution, irreverence and reform wherever it surfaces and in all its variety. He unveils the British people who fought and died for religious freedom, universal suffrage, justice and liberty - and shows why, now more than ever, their heroic achievements must be celebrated. Beginning with Magna Carta, Vallance subjects the touchstones of British radicalism to rigorous scrutiny. He evokes the figureheads of radical action, real and mythic - Robin Hood and Captain Swing, Wat Tyler, Ned Ludd, Thomas Paine and Emmeline Pankhurst - and the popular movements that bore them. Lollards and Levellers, Diggers, Ranters and Chartists, each has its membership, principles and objectives revealed.

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539

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Abacus

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ISBN 10

1405527773

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9781405527774

Now the News

The Story of Broadcast Journalism

By: Edward Bliss, Jr.

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Now the News

The Story of Broadcast Journalism

By: Edward Bliss, Jr.

-- Walter Cronkite

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624

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Columbia University Press

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0231521936

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9780231521932

The London Trilogy

Riding House Street, Nine Elms Lane & Kings Scholar's Passage to Vauxhall Bridge Road

By: Edward St. Boniface

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The London Trilogy

Riding House Street, Nine Elms Lane & Kings Scholar's Passage to Vauxhall Bridge Road

By: Edward St. Boniface

This is a trilogy about three young men finding the fulfillment of their youthful ambitions, from the late 1980s onwards, in rock music and journalism, up to the present day and middle age. As middle age comes on, each must accept a wider responsibility for their past sins. Having either emigrated to or been born in London, all of them become caught up in tantalising opportunities in the capital to fulfill their ambitions of success and fame. Each of them also finds that success comes with an immense price for them personally, and private failures that unmercifully torment them. Their hopeful idealism and dreams become tainted by ruthlessness, opportunism and betrayal of their principles. As each character grows older, he realises he wants to redeem himself and somehow resolve the worst things he has perpetrated in his life – but true redemption requires genuine sacrifice; one even more intense and difficult than their hard-won successes of the past. It may be more than any of them can endure. All of this happens against the background of London’s fantastic, fabulous variety and wealth and exoticism, opportunity and glamour, corruption and poverty and loneliness and harshness. Its pitfalls, rewards and insatiable demands as a fast-moving cultural and media capital are a significant part of the novel’s tone, with an intensified sense of time and place. Edward St. Boniface takes inspiration from a wide range of authors, including Ray Bradbury, Mark Z. Danielewski and David Foster Wallace. The London Trilogy is a work of adult contemporary fiction that will appeal to fans of highbrow and literary novels, bildungsromans and satire.

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760

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1783061251

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9781783061259

Adirondack

Life and Wildlife in the Wild, Wild East

By: Edward Kanze

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Adirondack

Life and Wildlife in the Wild, Wild East

By: Edward Kanze

Winner of the 2015 Adirondack Literary Award for Best Memoir presented by the Adirondack Center for Writing Born just north of New York City, Edward Kanze traveled as far as the wilds of Australia and New Zealand, working as a naturalist, park ranger, and nature writer, before finally settling in New York's Adirondacks for the riskiest of all life's adventures: marriage and children. Adirondack tells the story of how he and his wife, Debbie, bought a tumbledown house, rescued it from ruin, started a family, and planted themselves deep in Adirondack soil. Along the way, he brings the unique history of this area to life by sharing stories of his ancestors, who have lived there for generations, and by offering captivating descriptions of the world around him. A keen observer, Kanze will charm readers with his tales of bears, birds, and fluorescent mice.

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250

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State University of New York Press

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1438454155

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9781438454153

William Cobbett

Volume 1

By: Smith Edward

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William Cobbett

Volume 1

By: Smith Edward

Reproduction of the original: William Cobbett by Smith Edward

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182

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BoD – Books on Demand

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375243094X

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9783752430943

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Dark Days in the Newsroom

Dark Days in the Newsroom

A Radical History Of Britain

A Radical History Of Britain

Now the News

Now the News

The London Trilogy

The London Trilogy

Adirondack

Adirondack

William Cobbett

William Cobbett

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