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James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism

By: John F. Stacks

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James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism

By: John F. Stacks

Reston is a towering figure of American newspapers in the 20th century. Only John Stacks could have captured Reston so well--both in his glory and in his downfall. Because Reston was so powerful, the book is also a history of American politics since World War II, a secret history, a tale of what went on behind closed doors. photos.

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396

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803293399

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9780803293397

Deadline Artists

America's Greatest Newspaper Columns

By: John P. Avlon,Jesse Angelo,Errol Louis

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Deadline Artists

America's Greatest Newspaper Columns

By: John P. Avlon,Jesse Angelo,Errol Louis

Now in its fifth hardcover printing, Deadline Artists celebrates the relevance of the newspaper column through the simple power of excellent writing. It is an inspiration for a new generation of writers— whether their medium is print or digital—looking to learn from the best of their predecessors. Contributors include: Jimmy Breslin, Ernie Pyle, Dorothy Thompson, Thomas L. Friedman, David Brooks, Ernest Hemingway, Will Rogers, Langston Hughes, Woody Guthrie, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken, Art Buchwald, William F. Buckley, Dave Barry, Anna Quindlen, George Will, and Pete Hamill.

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518

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Abrams

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1590209877

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9781590209875

A Comparison Process for Mouse Pairs

By: John R. Steel

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A Comparison Process for Mouse Pairs

By: John R. Steel

This book proves some important new theorems in the theory of canonical inner models for large cardinal hypotheses, a topic of central importance in modern set theory. In particular, the author 'completes' the theory of Fine Structure and Iteration Trees (FSIT) by proving a comparison theorem for mouse pairs parallel to the FSIT comparison theorem for pure extender mice, and then using the underlying comparison process to develop a fine structure theory for strategy mice. Great effort has been taken to make the book accessible to non-experts so that it may also serve as an introduction to the higher reaches of inner model theory. It contains a good deal of background material, some of it unpublished folklore, and includes many references to the literature to guide further reading. An introductory essay serves to place the new results in their broader context. This is a landmark work in inner model theory that should be in every set theorist's library.

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550

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Cambridge University Press

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1108896820

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9781108896825

Albest

Untold Stories from the Correspondents for the Legendary Time-Life News Service

By: John Stacks

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Untold Stories from the Correspondents for the Legendary Time-Life News Service

By: John Stacks

This is a collection of the personal stories of many former Time-Life News Service correspondent and staff members. Many are hilarious, somre are tragic and sad. Some expose the silly moments of the great and famous. But they are all the personal accounts of what it was like to be a journalist in what was once one of the greatest news gathering organizations in the world.

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318

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Xlibris Corporation

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1477101020

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9781477101025

The Nixon Defense Deluxe

What He Knew and When He Knew It

By: John W. Dean

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The Nixon Defense Deluxe

What He Knew and When He Knew It

By: John W. Dean

Based on Nixon’s overlooked recordings, New York Times bestselling author John W. Dean connects the dots between what we’ve come to believe about Watergate and what actually happened This deluxe edition of The Nixon Defense includes 30 select recordings and transcriptions of secretly recorded conversations between Richard Nixon and his aides in the months after the Watergate break-in, including the three “smoking-gun” conversations of June 23, 1972. Many of these tapes have never been transcribed, giving us an unprecedented view of the origins of the president’s Watergate defense and the workings of the Nixon White House. Watergate forever changed American politics, and in light of the revelations about the NSA’s widespread surveillance program, the scandal has taken on new significance. Yet remarkably, four decades after Nixon was forced to resign, no one has told the full story of his involvement in Watergate. In The Nixon Defense, former White House Counsel John W. Dean, one of the last major surviving figures of Watergate, draws on his own transcripts of almost a thousand conversations, a wealth of Nixon’s secretly recorded information, and more than 150,000 pages of documents in the National Archives and the Nixon Library to provide the definitive answer to the question: What did President Nixon know and when did he know it? Through narrative and contemporaneous dialogue, Dean connects dots that have never been connected, including revealing how and why the Watergate break-in occurred, what was on the mysterious 18 1/2 minute gap in Nixon’s recorded conversations, and more. In what will stand as the most authoritative account of one of America’s worst political scandals, The Nixon Defense shows how the disastrous mistakes of Watergate could have been avoided and offers a cautionary tale for our own time.

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723

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Penguin

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0698194888

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9780698194885

Colin Powell

By: John F. Wukovits

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Colin Powell

By: John F. Wukovits

Surveys the life and military accomplishments of Colin Powell, as well as his struggles with racial prejudice.

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120

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1560066326

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The Nixon Defense

What He Knew and When He Knew It

By: John W. Dean

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The Nixon Defense

What He Knew and When He Knew It

By: John W. Dean

Based on Nixon’s overlooked recordings, New York Times bestselling author John W. Dean connects the dots between what we’ve come to believe about Watergate and what actually happened Watergate forever changed American politics, and in light of the revelations about the NSA’s widespread surveillance program, the scandal has taken on new significance. Yet remarkably, four decades after Nixon was forced to resign, no one has told the full story of his involvement in Watergate. In The Nixon Defense, former White House Counsel John W. Dean, one of the last major surviving figures of Watergate, draws on his own transcripts of almost a thousand conversations, a wealth of Nixon’s secretly recorded information, and more than 150,000 pages of documents in the National Archives and the Nixon Library to provide the definitive answer to the question: What did President Nixon know and when did he know it? Through narrative and contemporaneous dialogue, Dean connects dots that have never been connected, including revealing how and why the Watergate break-in occurred, what was on the mysterious 18 1/2 minute gap in Nixon’s recorded conversations, and more. In what will stand as the most authoritative account of one of America’s worst political scandals, The Nixon Defense shows how the disastrous mistakes of Watergate could have been avoided and offers a cautionary tale for our own time.

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786

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Penguin

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0143127381

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9780143127383

Journalism's Roving Eye

A History of American Foreign Reporting

By: John Maxwell Hamilton

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Journalism's Roving Eye

A History of American Foreign Reporting

By: John Maxwell Hamilton

In all of journalism, nowhere are the stakes higher than in foreign news-gathering. For media owners, it is the most difficult type of reporting to finance; for editors, the hardest to oversee. Correspondents, roaming large swaths of the planet, must acquire expertise that home-based reporters take for granted—facility with the local language, for instance, or an understanding of local cultures. Adding further to the challenges, they must put news of the world in context for an audience with little experience and often limited interest in foreign affairs—a task made all the more daunting because of the consequence to national security. In Journalism’s Roving Eye, John Maxwell Hamilton—a historian and former foreign correspondent—provides a sweeping and definitive history of American foreign news reporting from its inception to the present day and chronicles the economic and technological advances that have influenced overseas coverage, as well as the cavalcade of colorful personalities who shaped readers’ perceptions of the world across two centuries. From the colonial era—when newspaper printers hustled down to wharfs to collect mail and periodicals from incoming ships—to the ongoing multimedia press coverage of the Iraq War, Hamilton explores journalism’s constant—and not always successful—efforts at “dishing the foreign news,” as James Gordon Bennett put it in the mid-nineteenth century to describe his approach in the New York Herald. He details the highly partisan coverage of the French Revolution, the early emergence of “special correspondents” and the challenges of organizing their efforts, the profound impact of the non-yellow press in the run-up to the Spanish-American War, the increasingly sophisticated machinery of propaganda and censorship that surfaced during World War I, and the “golden age” of foreign correspondence during the interwar period, when outlets for foreign news swelled and a large number of experienced, independent journalists circled the globe. From the Nazis’ intimidation of reporters to the ways in which American popular opinion shaped coverage of Communist revolution and the Vietnam War, Hamilton covers every aspect of delivering foreign news to American doorsteps. Along the way, Hamilton singles out a fascinating cast of characters, among them Victor Lawson, the overlooked proprietor of the Chicago Daily News, who pioneered the concept of a foreign news service geared to American interests; Henry Morton Stanley, one of the first reporters to generate news on his own with his 1871 expedition to East Africa to “find Livingstone”; and Jack Belden, a forgotten brooding figure who exemplified the best in combat reporting. Hamilton details the experiences of correspondents, editors, owners, publishers, and network executives, as well as the political leaders who made the news and the technicians who invented ways to transmit it. Their stories bring the narrative to life in arresting detail and make this an indispensable book for anyone wanting to understand the evolution of foreign news-gathering. Amid the steep drop in the number of correspondents stationed abroad and the recent decline of the newspaper industry, many fear that foreign reporting will soon no longer exist. But as Hamilton shows in this magisterial work, traditional correspondence survives alongside a new type of reporting. Journalism’s Roving Eye offers a keen understanding of the vicissitudes in foreign news, an understanding imperative to better seeing what lies ahead.

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LSU Press

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080714486X

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9780807144862

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James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism

By: John F. Stacks

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The Nixon Defense Deluxe

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Colin Powell

The Nixon Defense

The Nixon Defense

Journalism's Roving Eye

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