The Press and America: An Interpretative History of the Mass Media
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1972. Third Edition. Third Printing. 788, illus., bibliography, index, some soiling to fore-edge, DJ edges worn. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1972. Third Edition. Third Printing. 788, illus., bibliography, index, some soiling to fore-edge, DJ edges worn. More
New York: Random House, [1973]. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 321, bibliography, index, errata slip, tear at top of DJ spine, p. 309 creased. More
New York, NY: Atheneum, 1984. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xii, [4], 430, [2] pages. Signed on the title page by the author, Harold Evans. DJ has small tears and chip to top edge. Includes List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Dramatis Personae, Foreword, Chapters cover The Sunday Times and the Crossman Diaries; DC-10 Disaster; Philby; Thalidomide; Sale of the Century; The Guarantees; Biffen's Missing Millions; The Tenth Proprietor; Questions of Trust; Times Past and Times Present; First Editions; The Black Friars; Changing The Times; Politics and Money; Plots; The Vanishing Titles; and The Ides of March., Afterword,, Sequels, Bibliography, Principal Sunday Times Books, Appendix, and Index. This is the autobiography of the battling and embattled journalist who--as the editor of the most famous newspaper in the world, the London Times--fought for his paper's editorial freedom against its new owner, international press baron Rupert Murdoch. It is the behind-the-scenes story of fifteen years at the heart of two of the world's greatest newspapers--a remarkable dossier of journalism and politics, of idealism and intrigue. Sir Harold Matthew Evans (28 June 1928 – 23 September 2020) was a British-American journalist and writer. In his career in his native Great Britain, he was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, and its sister title The Times for a year from 1981, before being forced out of the latter post by Rupert Murdoch. He was best known for his campaign at The Sunday Times seeking compensation for mothers who had taken the morning sickness drug thalidomide, which led to their children having severely deformed limbs. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1996. First Printing. 296, notes, some page corners creased, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, and creased. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. [8], 296 pages. Notes. Slight wear to DJ . Signed by the author. James Mackenzie Fallows (born August 2, 1949) is an American writer and journalist. He has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly for many years. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The American Prospect, among others. He is a former editor of U.S. News & World Report, and as President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter for two years was the youngest person ever to hold that job. Fallows has been a visiting professor at a number of universities in the U.S. and China, and holds the Chair in U.S. Media at the United States Studies Centre at University of Sydney. He is the author of eleven books, including National Defense, for which he received the 1983 National Book Award, Looking at the Sun (1994), Breaking the News (1996), Blind into Baghdad (2006), Postcards from Tomorrow Square (2009), China Airborne (2012), and Our Towns (2018). More
Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing Inc., 1997. Hardcover. 187 pages. Illus. Signed by the author. More
New York: Putnam's, c1993. First Printing. 24 cm, 511, illus., edges somewhat soiled, DJ slightly soiled with minor edge wear, ink notation on endpaper and title page. More
Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1992. Third Printing. 23 cm, 78, wraps, acid-free paper, illus., maps, chronology, index, covers somewhat worn, soiled, and sticker residue. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1986. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 418 pages, illus., Name written on front flyleaf, edges soiled. William Finnegan (born 1952) is a staff writer at The New Yorker and well-known author of works of international journalism. He has specially addressed issues of racism and conflict in Southern Africa and politics in Mexico and South America, as well as poverty among youth in the United States, and is well known for his writing on surfing. In 1986, he was sent to Johannesburg, where he followed black reporters who gathered information for white reporters during Apartheid. This led to the 1988 publication of Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters. A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique, published in 1992, grew out of a series of correspondences about the war-torn nation for the magazine, and Finnegan's own travels throughout that war-torn nation. More
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. First Printing. 24 cm, 325, bibliography, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Inscribed by the author to Michael Barone (Almanac of Politics). More
Penguin Books, 2014. First Paperback Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. xvii, [3], 1112, [2] pages. Map Cast of Characters. Chart of Families. This is Book Three of the Century Trilogy. Cover has some wear and soiling. Kenneth Martin "Ken" Follett (born 5 June 1949) is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold more than 150 million copies of his works. Many of his books have reached number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list, including Edge of Eternity, Fall of Giants, A Dangerous Fortune, The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple, Winter of the World, and World Without End. More
Kansas City, MO: Sheed & Ward, c1991. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 192, wraps, illus, some wear and soiling to covers. Foreword by Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1991. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 429 pages. Name and date written inside front board, minor staining to edges. Front board slightly weakened. Out of Thin Air is the story of the news behind the news. Studded with personal anecdotes, this is the inside story of the people and events that shaped the way TV reports the news. Frank gives readers a revealing look at how hit-or-miss the development of TV news was--and what a seat-of-the-pants adventure creating the news turned out to be. Agreeably sardonic reflections and recollections from a top broadcaster whose career in TV coincided with its emergence as a preeminent news medium. During his 38 globe-trotting years with the network, he wrote as well as produced a variety of news programs, including the Huntley-Brinkley Report, so-called instant specials, and a flock of prize-winning documentaries. In recounting the swift rise and subsequent fall of broadcast news in the context of his own experiences at NBC, Frank offers the equivalent of an anecdotal history of the post-WW II era. During its heyday, he argues, TV not only covered but also helped shape great events. With trashy infotainment shows now crowding the airwaves, the author concludes that TV has sold its birthright for a mess of pottage. A witty, illuminating memoir of the years when TV news was a hit-or-miss proposition. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1991. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 429 pages. Name in ink on flyleaf. Agreeably sardonic reflections and recollections from a top broadcaster whose career in TV coincided with its emergence as a preeminent news medium. During his 38 globe-trotting years with the network, he wrote as well as produced a variety of news programs, including the Huntley-Brinkley Report, so-called instant specials, and a flock of prize-winning documentaries. In recounting the swift rise and subsequent fall of broadcast news in the context of his own experiences at NBC, Frank offers the equivalent of an anecdotal history of the post-WW II era. During its heyday, he argues, TV not only covered but also helped shape great events. With trashy infotainment shows now crowding the airwaves, the author concludes that TV has sold its birthright. Program content apart, he laments that latter-day producers forget that TV is a visual as well as narrative medium. Frank provides acerbic perspectives on colleagues, superiors, celebrities, rivals, and other notables. A witty, illuminating memoir of the years when TV news was a hit-or-miss proposition. More
New York: Random House, 1999. Second Printing. Hardcover. 546 pages. Illus., map, index, slight wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the author. More
Washington, DC: The Club, 1985. 24 cm, 155, illus. More
New York: Freedom Forum Media Studies, 1992. 181, wraps, illus., figures, some soiling and wear to covers. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 383, [3] pages. Price clipped. Signed by author. Previous owner's name and address present on fep. Inscribed on half-title. Most of the essays in this collection, by the foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times,were written during Friedman's extensive travels throughout the Middle East and the world. Included is the never-before-published "Diary: Travels in a World Without Walls. " Longitudes and Attitudes contains the columns Friedman has published about the most momentous news story of our time, as well as a diary of his experiences and reactions during this period of crisis. As the author writes, the book is "not meant to be a comprehensive study of September 11 and all the factors that went into it. Rather, my hope is that it will constitute a 'word album' that captures and preserves the raw, unpolished, emotional and analytical responses that illustrate how I, and others, felt as we tried to grapple with September and its aftermath, as they were unfolding. More
New York: Random House, c1976. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 268, DJ taped to book, edges soiled. More
New York: Random House, c1981. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 243, illus., ink name on front endpaper, DJ soiled and edges worn. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 483, [3] p. Map. More
New York: The New Press, 2016. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, 321, [3] pages. Notes. Index. Four days before Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, someone leaked American contingency war plans to the Chicago Tribune. The small splash the story made was overwhelmed by the shock waves caused by the Japanese attack on the Pacific fleet anchored in Hawaii but the ripples never subsided, growing quietly but steadily across the Cold War, Vietnam, the fall of Communism, and into the present. Ripped from today's headlines, Lloyd C. Gardner's book takes a deep dive into the previously unexamined history of national security leakers. The War on Leakers joins the growing debate over surveillance and the national security state, bringing to bear the unique perspective of one our most respected diplomatic historians. Gardner examines how national security leaks have been grappled with over nearly five decades, what the relationship of “leaking” has been to the exercise of American power during and after the Cold War, and the implications of all this for how we should think about the role of leakers and democracy. Gardner's eye-opening new history asks us to consider why America has invested so much of its resources, technology, and credibility in a system that all but cries out for loyal Americans to leak its secrets Lloyd C. Gardner (born 1934) is an American historian, a member of the "Wisconsin School" of diplomatic history along with Walter LaFeber and Thomas J. McCormick. Gardner was the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University, where he taught since 1963. He is author or editor of 16 books on American foreign policy. More
[New York]: Nat Council on Public Polls, n.d. 12, wraps, brochure/pamphlet format. More
Washington, DC: George Washington University, 2012. Ephemera. 4 pages. Wraps, Ephemera. Illus., some edge creasing. Signed on the front cover by Walter Isaacson. More
Washington, DC: George Washington University, 2008. Wraps. 4 pages. Wraps, illus., ticket and ephemera laid in. Signed on the front cover by Bill O'Reilly. More