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  • Finding the News

    Adventures of a Young Reporter

    by Peter Copeland ...
    Series series From Our Own Correspondent
    Finding the News tells Peter Copeland’s fast-paced story of becoming a distinguished journalist. Starting in Chicago as a night police reporter, Copeland went on to work as a war correspondent in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa before covering national politics in Washington, DC, where he rose to be bureau chief of the E. W. Scripps Company. The lessons he learned about accuracy and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • From Ronald Reagan to Rodney King

    Chronicling America in the "Age of Optimism"

    by Lou Cannon, John Maxwell Hamilton ...
    Series series Media and Public Affairs
    A giant of political journalism, Lou Cannon rose to prominence as state bureau chief for the San Jose Mercury News in the late 1960s, covering then-governor of California Ronald Reagan. In 1972, he became a political reporter for The Washington Post, one of the top newspapers in the United States, where he would remain until 2008. Best known for his coverage of Reagan’s presidency, he also notably ... Read more

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  • Manipulating the Masses

    Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda

    by John Maxwell Hamilton ...
    Winner of the Goldsmith Book PrizeWinner of the AEJMC History Division Book AwardWinner of the AJHA Book of the YearWinner of the Culbert Family Book PrizeManipulating the Masses tells the story of the enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishment of pervasive, systematic propaganda as an instrument of the state. During the Great War, the federa... ... Read more

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  • A Journalist's Diplomatic Mission

    Ray Stannard Baker's World War I Diary

    Edited by John Maxwell Hamilton, Robert Mann ...
    Series series From Our Own Correspondent
    At the height of World War I, in the winter of 1917--1918, one of the Progressive era's most successful muckracking journalists, Ray Stannard Baker (1870--1946), set out on a special mission to Europe on behalf of the Wilson administration. While posing as a foreign correspondent for the New Republic and the New York World, Baker assessed public opinion in Europe about the war and postwar ... Read more

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  • Herbert Corey’s Great War

    A Memoir of World War I by the American Reporter Who Saw It All

    Edited by John Maxwell Hamilton, Peter Finn ...
    Series series From Our Own Correspondent
    In 1914, the Associated Newspapers sent correspondent Herbert Corey to Europe on the day Great Britain declared war on Germany. During the Great War that followed, Corey reported from France, Britain, and Germany, visiting the German lines on both the western and eastern fronts. He also reported from Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, and Serbia. When the Armistice was signed in ... Read more

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  • Casanova Was A Book Lover

    And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities about the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books

    by John Maxwell Hamilton ...
    Everyone knows which books people buy; they can just look at the best-seller lists. But who knows which books people steal? Who, for that matter, knows that authors ruin the book market by writing too much? Or why book critics are not critical? Or why librarians need to throw out more books? Who, indeed, knows the answer to that all-important question in our democracy: should presidents and ... Read more

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  • From Pigeons to News Portals

    Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New Technology

    Edited by David D. Perlmutter, John Maxwell Hamilton ...
    Series series Media and Public Affairs
    Ever since the invention of the telegraph, journalists have sought to remove the barriers of time and space. Today, we readily accept that reporters can jet quickly to a distant location and broadcast instantly from a satellite-connected, video-enabled cell phone hanging from their belts. But now that live news coverage is possible from virtually anywhere, is foreign correspondence better? And ... Read more

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  • Common Cause

    A Novel of the War in America

    by Samuel Hopkins Adams ...
    A lost literary relic of the First World War, Common Cause tells the story of Jeremy Robson, a crusading newspaper editor in the fictional midwestern town of Fenchester. The Guardian’s muckraking has led special interests to withhold advertising in order to drive Robson out of business. But he and local plutocrats put their differences aside when war is declared in 1917 in order to attack the ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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  • Ed Kennedy's War

    V-E Day, Censorship, and the Associated Press

    by Ed Kennedy ...
    Series series From Our Own Correspondent
    On May 7, 1945, Associated Press reporter Ed Kennedy became the most famous -- or infamous -- American correspondent of World War II. On that day in France, General Alfred Jodl signed the official documents as the Germans surrendered to the Allies. Army officials allowed a select number of reporters, including Kennedy, to witness this historic moment -- but then instructed the journalists that the ... Read more

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