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Cartwright had been the office bully and a snoop for decades so few at the newspaper where he worked mourn him when he is found dead. But when colleague Owen Simmons discovers a dossier on Cartwright's desk containing a photograph, it brings Owen back to a dusty road in Africa and to the woman he once loved.
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English
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"Married foreign correspondents John and Frances Gunther intimately understood that it isn't only impersonal, economic forces that propel history, bringing readers so close to the front lines of history that they could feel how personal pathologies becamethe stuff of geopolitical crises. Together with other reporters of the Lost Generation--American journalists H.R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson--the Gunthers slipped through...
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English
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"The chilliest years of the Cold War marked the entrance of a young man who would go on to become one of America's preeminent diplomatic correspondents. Handpicked by the legendary Edward R. Murrow to join the ranks of an esteemed news network that was just beginning to enter a new world of televised news broadcasting, Marvin Kalb takes readers back to his first days as a journalist, and what also were the first days of broadcast news."--Book jacket....
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English
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"After ISIS terrorists attack the United States Capitol Building during the president's State of the Union address, the entire world waits to see how the most powerful nation on earth will respond. But the Taylor administration is more committed to political correctness than to justice, and it falls to other nations to lead the way in hunting down Abu Khalif, the criminal and religious mastermind who leads the Islamic State. When New York Times journalist...
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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In 2019, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who reported in over 150 countries, many in violent upheaval, was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor, which gave him the strength to face more personal conflicts, in this unforgettable final dispatch that reveals how facing the unknown can change our relationship to the world around us.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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When five women are found brutally killed in Sierra Leone, journalist Connie Burns suspects that a British mercenary is acting out his sadistic fantasies, but her efforts to expose him are complicated by her traumatic experiences as a hostage in Baghdad.
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
ix, 403 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"At a time when print media reigned supreme and newspapers were legion, Dorothy Thompson, John Gunther, Vincent Sheean, and Rayna Raphaelson Prohme impulsively left their homes to reinvent themselves as international journalists and adopt the power of the press as their own. In Fighting Words, acclaimed historian Nancy Cott follows these four largely unknown young Americans to reveal how foreign journalism shaped America's sense of its place in the...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab news sources and got a call that a busload of Italian tourists were massacred at a Cairo museum. This was his first view of the carnage these years would pile on. Over two decades, Engel has been under fire, blown out of hotel beds, and taken hostage....
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
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xvi, 313 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm.
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English
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"What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can people find a sense of belonging when they have never felt part of a 'tribe?' And how does a blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman who's never lived in the Middle East honor her Arab Muslim ancestry and displaced family--a family forced to scatter when their home country was torn apart by war? Hala Gorani's path to self-discovery started the moment she could understand that she...
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
396 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful, ruthlessly competitive, and sexually adventurous, she forced her way to the front despite being told the combat zone was no place for a woman. Her headline-making exploits earned her a reputation...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
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xiv, 311 pages : map ; 24 cm
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English
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Normandy, 1944. To cover the fighting in France, Jane, a reporter for the Nashville Banner, and Liv, an Associated Press photographer, have already had to endure enormous danger and frustrating obstacles -- including strict military regulations limiting what women correspondents can do. Even so, Liv wants more. Encouraged by her husband, the editor of a New York newspaper, she's determined to be the first photographer to reach Paris with the Allies,...
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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 354 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United States, writing as both native and knowledgeable outsider in these two very different regions. This unusual perspective distinguishes "Strange stones," which showcases Hessler's unmatched range as a storyteller.
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