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Amy Calder is an award-winning newspaper reporter and columnist, covering city government and everything from murders and car crashes to fires and drug busts. Her 34-year career started at the Waterville Sentinel bureau in Skowhegan, where she served as bureau chief for several years and chased stories from Jackman to Fairfield and Farmington to Newport. Since 2009, Calder has written a weekly human interest column, "Reporting Aside," which appears...
42) Summary of The Rainbow Comes and Goes: by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt | Includes Analysis
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Summary of The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt | Includes Analysis Preview: The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt is the result of a year of email exchanges between a son and his mother. They explore themes of life, love, and loss. When Vanderbilt was nearing her ninety-first birthday, she was hospitalized with a respiratory infection. This led Cooper to consider her mortality and to wonder...
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She was Australian born, an international bestselling author and a member of the glamorous literary, intellectual and society salons of late nineteenth and early twentieth century London and Europe
She was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. She was a whirlwind. She created around her the atmosphere of a Court, at which her friends were either in disgrace or favour, a butt or a blessing.
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A BLACK MAN, BORN AND RAISED IN THE CULTURE OF THE CARIBBEAN, ACCUSTOMED TO POLITICAL DISCRIMINATION, BUT UNACCUSTOMED TO AMERICAN SYSTEMIC RACISM, CONFRONTS BOTH IN THIS ENGAGING AUTOBIOGRAPHT BY C. G. GARDINER. HIS IS A STORY OF DETERMINATION, PERSEVERENCE, AND GOOD FOURTUNE. IT IS A WELL WRITTEN AND "READER FRIENDLY."
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By the beginning of 1982, Adam Carr had started to hear about a 'new' disease apparently affecting mostly gay men and his first ever article on AIDS appeared in GCN in February of that year. It carried the rather flippant title "Will We All Die of 'Gay Cancer'?" This reflected the skepticism with which Adam, like most gay activists and journalists, received the initial reports that there was an outbreak of cancer specific to gay men.
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I'm That Guy is a collection for "Outtake" columns by Rick Outzen that he published in his weekly newspaper, The Independent News. The columns show his struggle to help his paper and Northwest Florida battle the "storms" of hurricanes, oil spills and corrupt politicians. Someone has to be that guy that challenges the status quo. Rick Outzen is that guy. Rick writes about covering Hurricane Ivan, the sensational murder case of Byrd and Melanie Billings,...
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This upbeat, funny and true story is about an American girl who found her superpowers by becoming Clark Kent. Determined to be a newspaper reporter, she discovered that the job wasn't open to girls. But she persisted, and succeeding beyond her wildest dreams, she covered some of the most tumultuous and colorful stories of her time, including the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, terrorist Sara Jane Moore's attempt to kill President Ford,...
48) Cudlipp's Circus
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Award-winning Australian author Peter Thompson evokes the now-vanished world he encountered on joining 'Cudlipp's Circus' at the Daily Mirror in 1966, bringing to life the days when Fleet Street was the front-page equivalent of Dodge City and its pubs shuddered to the midnight roar of mighty rotary presses. The Mirror's daily quota of mischief, mayhem and madness attracted journalists from all over the globe. The columnist Cassandra called this convergence...
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Drawn from Eric Hoffer's private papers as well as interviews with those who knew him, this detailed biography paints a picture of a truly original American thinker and writer. Author Tom Bethell interviewed Hoffer in the years just before his death, and his meticulous accounts of those meetings offer new insights into the man known as the "Longshoreman Philosopher."
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El infatigable Italo Calvino habría cumplido cien años el 15 de octubre de 2023 si el esfuerzo excesivo que conlleva ser, entre otras cosas, «diligente redactor editorial» no hubiera acabado con él. El presente volumen pretende ser una «semblanza demediada» del meticuloso editor y del perseverante amigo que fue; quiere reconstruir los primeros pasos del Calvino escritor, su afilada visión de la industria cultural y su forma de trabajar con...
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Claire Sulmers is the Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Fashion Bomb Daily, one of the top 50 most influential style blogs in the world. With millions of followers on Instagram, tons of traffic, and loads of likes on Facebook, she has forged her own stylish path in the notoriously cut throat fashion industry. You'll see her twirling at celebrity parties and sitting front row at fashion week--but life wasn't always so glamorous. It took 10 years of hard...
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The legend of Harold Sterns, the Last of the Bohemians, begins in 1912 when he runs naked through Harvard Yard, a twenty-year-old man acting on impulse and looking like Shelley. At thirty-two he had left the United States, disgusted with the sordid red-baiting and prohibition snooping of the early twenties, disgusted also perhaps with himself, vowing never to return to a country so inhospitable to civilization.
Harold Stearns symbolized the bitter...
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Se termina de leer este libro La Universidad de mi Vida, agotado, emocionado, admirado, lleno de una serie de sensaciones extraordinarias.
Porque ese empirismo que relata Jota se convierte en una tesis laureada en la "universidad de la vida" y en cualquier parte del mundo. La espeluznante descripción de su hijo Jorge sobre su pasión, muerte y resurrección es de una precisión de relojero, de un apóstol de la vida, de quien lleva la vena periodística...
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Get the Summary of Lisa Wilkinson's It Wasn't Meant to Be Like in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Subjected to horrific bullying as a teenager, Lisa survived by making herself as small as possible. But, she swore when she left school that no one was ever again going to determine, who she was, or limit what she was capable of. That determination and drive led to Lisa blazing an unprecedented...
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La noche en que Macri venció a Scioli en la segunda vuelta de las presidenciales, Diego Sztulwark le escribió a Horacio Verbitsky para insistirle en que era el momento de encarar un libro de balances. No de inventario de lo mal hecho, no de pase de facturas o de revisión frívola del pasado. De balances políticos. Vida de perro es ese libro. Más de medio siglo de historia argentina desde la mirada de un personaje memorioso, selectivo, intolerante...
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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 Watergate.
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Born the day after the first American occupying troops landed near Tokyo in August 1945, Kerry O'Brien's life has spanned the post-war era through the maelstrom of the nuclear and digital age-a remarkable time of intense and dynamic change that has no match in human history. He has witnessed life changing events, interviewed the great and good, and explained the intricacies of the world to millions of Australians as we sat in the comfort and safety...
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Get the Summary of Russell Baker's Growing Up in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Growing Up" is a memoir by Russell Baker that recounts his journey from a childhood marked by the Great Depression to his eventual success as a journalist. The narrative begins with Baker's elderly mother, who, after a fall, becomes mentally adrift in her past, often forgetting the present and even mistaking her son for a stranger....
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This book is a recounting of a profession that is on the downhill side of history.
It's far too fashionable today for front offices to tell us that all we need is a better use of white space, color graphics, more features, and online bells and whistles to slow the decline. They seem impervious to the fact that there is nothing online that wasn't first gathered and compiled by a journalist.
But the individuals preaching these tactics are not newspaper...
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Juan Guillermo Ríos es, sin duda alguna, una de las caras más reconocidas del periodismo colombiano. No solamente vivió en carne propia vivencias que marcaron la historia del país y del mundo entero, tales como la toma del Palacio de Justicia, el gobierno de Turbay, el Tour de Francia (por solo nombrar algunos), sino que marcó un hito en la televisión colombiana con su estilo de presentación e impecable trabajo a la hora de comunicar las noticias...
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