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Pub. Date
c2003
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Includes 32 color photos taken by the author during the month he was embedded with the 82nd in Kuwait and Iraq.
This is a riveting account of the war in Iraq moving north with the 82nd Airborne. Units of the 82nd depart Kuwait and convoy to Iraq's Tallil Air Base en route to night-and-day battles within the major city of Samawah and its intact bridges across the Euphrates. Boots on the Ground quickly becomes an action-filled microcosm of the new...
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Pub. Date
2002.
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Features columns by the author published in the New York Times. Presented chronologically, they span from December 15, 2000 to July 3, 2002. Also contains a diary of his private experiences and reflections during his travels from Afghanistan to Israel to Europe to Indonesia to Saudi Arabia during his post-September 11 reporting.
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2023.
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Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, would buy the Post, marking a sudden end to control by the venerated family that had presided over the paper for 80 years. Just over two years later, Donald Trump won the presidency.
Now, the capital's newspaper, owned by one of...
Pub. Date
2006
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The 1937 explosion of the Hindenburg airship was one of the 20th century's most famous disasters. In its day, the dirigible was the world's fastest, most technologically advanced, and most luxurious transportation. But in 34 seconds, the aircraft was gone. Was it a victim of the nitrogen gas used for lift? A retired NASA scientist and hydrogen specialist sets out to prove that the Hindenburg's real flaw was only skin deep.
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Pub. Date
c2003
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The author provides all of the columns he has published about the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, as well as a diary of his private experiences and reflections during his post 9-11 travels. Updated for this new paperback edition, with over two years' worth of his columns and an expanded version of his diary, the book is the work from a trusted observer of the international scene.
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Pub. Date
c2006
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This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities and injustices of racial segregation in the South and the brutality used to enforce it.
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Pub. Date
2021
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Randi Pink's The Angel of Greenwood is a historical YA novel that takes place during the Greenwood Massacre of 1921, in an area of Tulsa, OK, known as the "Black Wall Street."
"Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. A passionate follower of W.E.B. Du Bois, he believes that black people should rise up to claim their place...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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"This is the story of a media that set out to destroy a president and his administration, but destroyed themselves instead.” – From the Preface
Brent Bozell is one of the most outspoken leaders in the conservative movement today. As Founder and President of the Media Research Center, he runs the largest media watchdog organization in America. In this fascinating examination of the media’s war on Donald Trump, Bozell and his coauthor Tim Graham...
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2021.
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"Martha Gellhorn was one of the world’s greatest war correspondents, travelling to hotspots to report on conflicts including the Spanish Civil War, World War Two, the Vietnam War and the Arab-Israeli wars. She wrote for Collier’s magazine, which could only send one journalist to cover the invasion of France in June 1944. When Ernest Hemingway – Gellhorn’s estranged husband and the most famous writer in the world – offered his services, they...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"In 1941, when German armies were marching towards Moscow, Lenin's body was moved from his tomb on Red Square and taken to Siberia. By 1945, a victorious Stalin had turned a poor country into a victorious superpower. Over the course of those four years, Stalin, at Churchill's insistence, accepted an Anglo-American press corps in Moscow to cover the Eastern Front. To turn these reporters into Kremlin mouthpieces, Stalin imposed the most draconian controls--unbending...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"A gripping group portrait of six revolutionary women writers during World War II "I am going to Spain with the boys," Martha Gellhorn wrote. "I don't know who the boys are but I am going with them." On the front lines of the Second World War, the lives of six remarkable women intertwined: Lee Miller, the Vogue cover model and photographer who lived in Paris as Man Ray's lover before becoming a war correspondent for the magazine; Martha Gellhorn,...
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Stuck in a rut, reporter Kim Baker decides to shake things up by leaving her desk job in New York and taking a dangerous assignment in Afghanistan. Far from home and completely out of her comfort zone, a culture-shocked Kim befriends an adventurous reporter, a no-nonsense Colonel and a charming photojournalist to help her navigate this crazy new world. Amidst the chaos, Kim discovers her true strength as she risks it all to find the next big story....