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• Prologue: Alone
• Abu Ghraib
• George Bush and the Texas Air National Guard
• Roots
• New York, civil rights, and Dallas
• Presidents I have known, part I
• Presidents I have known, part II
• Washington, London, Vietnam
• Afghanistan
• 9/11
• Rather v. CBS
• Reinventing Dan Rather
• Epilogue: Corporatization, politicization, and trivialization of the news.

This memoir by the author, one of the most pre-eminent journalists of our time, is told in a straightforward and conversational manner; you hear his distinctive voice on every page. He has won every prestigious journalism award in his distinguished career, and discusses all the big stories from his decades of reporting. This very personal accounting includes (but is certainly not limited to) his dismissal from CBS, the Abu Ghraib story, the George W. Bush Air National Guard controversy, his coverage of the JFK assassination, the origin of "Hurricane Dan" as well as inside stories about all the top personalities he has either interviewed or worked with over his remarkable career. The book also includea his thoughts and reflections on the state of journalism today and what he sees for its future, as well as never-before-revealed personal observations and commentary.

• Tsunami : washed away
• Iraq : inkblots of blood
• Niger : night sweats
• Katrina : facing the storm.

From one of America's leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond. "Dispatches from the Edge of the World" is a book that gives us a rare up-close glimpse of what happens when the normal order of things is suddenly turned upside down, whether it's a natural disaster, a civil war, or a heated political battle. Over the last year, few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has become the touchstone of twenty-first century journalism. This book explores in a very personal way the most important - and most dangerous - crises of our time, and the surprising impact they have had on his life. From the devastating tsunami in South Asia to the suffering Niger, and ultimately Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Cooper shares his own experiences of traversing the globe, covering the world's most astonishing stories. In his first book, that passion communicates itself through a rich fabric of memoir and reportage, reflection and first-person narrative. Unflinching and utterly engrossing, this is the story of an extraordinary year in a reporter's life.
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Alex Witchel manages to struggle through a full, challenging and frequently hilarious life. And In Girls Only she goes on a soul-searching and shopping spree - with the ever-present help of her wise (and occasionally exasperating) mother, Barbara, and her exasperating (and occasionally wise) sister, Phoebe. These three form only the female half of the Witchel nuclear unit, yet they are a family of their own, and with a passionately cliquelike unity they attack the entire range of women's problems, from careers to men to aging to pedicures. A true-blooded New Yorker, there is nothing Alex likes better than to leave her Upper West Side apartment for a week-end voyage, armed with pen, paper and her mother. And sometimes Phoebe - if she's lucky. With a sharply ironic eye and a fresh and funny voice, Alex mines the wry subtext of their interactions. And the ultimate message, whether in bad times or good, is that there is an undeniable love and understanding among these three women that gives them strength, courage and quite a lot of fun.
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• Andbar Province, Iraq
• Nightclub royalty in the shadow of the bomb
• The New York Times, the token
• The Washington bureau
• Becoming a "Timesman"
• Egypt : foreign correspondent
• From the Nile to the Seine
• "Be careful what you wish for" : Washington news editor
• The Gulf war
• Terror in tiny packages
• Al Qaeda
• Ashes and anthrax : the shadow of 9/11
• The defector
• Phase 2 : Iraq
• "Where's Waldo?" the hunt for WMD in Iraq
• The revolt
• The war within
• Correcting the record
• Scapegoat
• Protecting sources
• Inmate 45570083
• Departures.

As a foreign and investigative reporter, Miller is highly respected and controversial. In this memoir she turns her reporting skills on herself, writing about the mistakes she and others made on the existence in Iraq of weapons of mass destruction; addressing the motives of some of her sources; describing going to jail to protect her sources in the Scooter Libby investigation of the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame and how the Times subsequently abandoned her. Miller's career is an adventure story, told with bluntness and wryness.

• Juvenilia delinquent : "underground" press, 1970-1972
• The truth about the sixties and other fiction
• Days of wage : National lampoon, 1971-1981
• Drives to nowhere : automotive journalism
• Essays, prefaces, speeches, reviews, and things jotted on napkins
• Current and recurrent events.
• Bad sports.

America's most provocative (and conservative) satirist was at one time a raving pinko, with the scab on his bleeding heart to prove it. Through 25 years of his writing, this collection traces O'Rourke's development, from a self-described "nightmare of the bourgeoisie" to the staunch conservative who threatens to aim his shotgun at any revival of the '60s.
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As a correspondent for ABC's "Day One", Hockenberry has traveled SCUD-menaced streets in Jerusalem, the mountains of war-torn Iraq, and New York's Great White Way--in a wheelchair. Addressing his subjects as a thought-provoking journalist first, an insightful iconoclast second, and a man who happens to be physically challenged last, he provides readers with an intriguing account of his many exploits.
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• Introduction
• Getting started
• City news
• Interludes
• Chicago and the AP
• Washington, at last
• Bugs and a book
• A presidential campaign
• Going after the biologicals
• Finding Calley
• A national disgrace
• To The New Yorker
• Finally there
• Watergate, and much more
• Me and Henry
• The big one
• Off to New York
• Kissinger, again, and beyond
• A New Yorker reprise
• America's war on terror.

"Seymour Hersh's fearless reporting has earned him fame, front-page bylines in virtually every major newspaper in the free world, honors galore, and no small amount of controversy. Now in this memoir he describes what drove him and how he worked as an independent outsider, even at the nation's most prestigious publications. He tells the stories behind the stories—riveting in their own right—as he chases leads, cultivates sources, and grapples with the weight of what he uncovers, daring to challenge official narratives handed down from the powers that be. In telling these stories, Hersh divulges previously unreported information about some of his biggest scoops, including the My Lai massacre and the horrors at Abu Ghraib. There are also illuminating recollections of some of the giants of American politics and journalism: Ben Bradlee, A. M. Rosenthal, David Remnick, and Henry Kissinger among them."-- Dust jacket.

The journalist describes her work as a foreign correspondent and the close relationship she had with her mother, who suffered from manic depression and was often deluded and convinced she was Marie Antoinette or the Queen of Sheba.
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• Introduction: Are you done taking sh*t?
• Speaking the unspeakable
• You can't break a badass
• Don't rob my dream!
• You have the right
• "Asking for it"
• Forced into silence
• Men who defend
• Enough already!
• Our children are watching
• Be fierce
• Join me.

When Gretchen Carlson made a life changing decision to "walk off the set" and speak up about injustice in the workplace, she felt as if she were jumping off a cliff, but that leap led to a new calling: to change the way women fight sexual harassment.After the former Miss America, mother of two, and star news anchor at Fox stood up, walked out, and spoke out, women all over the world began to take back their lives, careers and dignity, and she became a voice for the voiceless.In BE FIERCE, Gretchen shares her experience and includes stories from the many women who have reached out to her, as well as interviews with prominent women who refuse to submit to intimidation of any kind - people like Lisa Bloom, Anita Hill, and Anucha Browne Sanders. Gretchen also shares the wisdom and research of lawyers, psychologists, and other experts to confront this problem and advance what has become an international conversation.
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• Off Diamond Head (Honolulu, 1966-67)
• Smell the ocean (California, ca. 1956-65)
• The shock of the new (California, 1968)
• 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky (Maui, 1971)
• The search (The South Pacific, 1978)
• The lucky country (Australia, 1978-79)
• Choosing Ethiopia (Asia, Africa, 1979-81)
• Against dereliction (San Francisco, 1983-86)
• Basso profundo (Madeira, 1994-2003)
• The mountains fall into the heart of the sea (New York City, 2002-15)

Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses -- off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships annealed in challenging waves. Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu even while his closest friend was a native Hawaiian surfer. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly -- he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui -- is served up with rueful humor. He and a buddy, their knapsacks crammed with reef charts, bushwhack through Polynesia. They discover, while camping on an uninhabited island in Fiji, one of the world's greatest waves. As Finnegan's travels take him ever farther afield, he becomes an improbable anthropologist: unpicking the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissecting the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, navigating the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs