The Forever War

Written by Dexter Filkins

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27944-6 (0-307-27944-8)

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year

One of the Best Books of the Year:
New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, and Time

An instant classic of war reporting, The Forever War is the definitive account... Read more >

A Continent for the Taking
The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
Written by Howard W. French

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3027-9 (1-4000-3027-7)

In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s most devastating recent history–from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor’s arrival in Monrovia, to the genocide in Rwanda and the Congo that... Read more >

Longitudes and Attitudes
The World in the Age of Terrorism
Written by Thomas L. Friedman

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3125-2 (1-4000-3125-7)

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist and bestselling author of From Beirut to Jerusalem and The Lexus and the Olive Tree comes this smart, penetrating, brilliantly informed book that is indispensable for understanding today’s radically new world and America’s complex place in it.

Thomas L. Freidman received his third Pulitzer... Read more >

Winchell
Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity
Written by Neal Gabler

Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 26, 1995
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76439-7 (0-679-76439-9)

Hailed as the most important and entertaining biography in recent memory, Gabler’s account of the life of fast-talking gossip columnist and radio broadcaster Walter Winchell “fuses meticulous research with a deft grasp of the cultural nuances of an era when virtually everyone who mattered paid homage to Winchell” (Time). Read more >

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession
Written by David Grann

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27590-5 (0-307-27590-6)

From the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z comes this brilliant collection of true stories about people whose fixations propel them into unfathomable and often deadly circumstances.
 
Whether David Grann is investigating a mysterious murder, tracking a chameleon-like con artist, or hunting an elusive giant squid, he has proven to... Read more >

A Writer at War
A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945
Written by Vasily Grossman

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27533-2 (0-307-27533-7)

Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova A Writer at War is a masterpiece of the Second World War, never before published in English, from one of the great Russian writers of the 20th century—a vivid eyewitness account of the Eastern Front and “the ruthless truth... Read more >

A Writer's Coach
The Complete Guide to Writing Strategies That Work
Written by Jack R. Hart

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7869-1 (1-4000-7869-5)

Mystified over misplaced modifiers? In a trance from intransitive verbs? Paralyzed from using the passive voice? To aid writers, from beginners to professionals, legendary writing coach Jack Hart presents a comprehensive, practical, step-by-step approach to the writing process. He shares his techniques for composing and sustaining powerful writing and demonstrates how... Read more >

Hiroshima

Written by John Hersey

Format: Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 4, 1989
Price: $7.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72103-1 (0-679-72103-7)

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity"... Read more >

unSpun
Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
Written by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6566-0 (1-4000-6566-6)

Selected for common reading at Itasca Community College


Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. The news media–once the vaunted watchdogs of our republic–are often too timid or distracted to identify these deceptions.

unSpun is the secret decoder ring for the twenty-first-century world of... Read more >

Bulletproof Diva

Written by Lisa Jones

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 19, 1997
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-47123-7 (0-385-47123-8)

In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, "Skin Trade," to a much larger audience. Chock full of the "fierce black girl humor" that has made her column so popular, this provocative collection of essays and observations on race, sex, identity, and the... Read more >

Morning Miracle
Inside the Washington Post The Fight to Keep a Great Newspaper Alive
Written by Dave Kindred

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2814-4 (0-7679-2814-8)

An in-depth look at the Washington Post from a Pulitzer Prize—nominated Post veteran. Morning Miracle definitively answers the question “Do newspapers still matter?” with a resounding yes.

What The Kingdom and the Power did for the New York Times, Morning Miracle will do for the Washington Post. A reporter for more than... Read more >

Shutterbabe
Adventures in Love and War
Written by Deborah Copaken Kogan

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75868-3 (0-375-75868-2)

Fresh out of college and passionate about photography, Deborah Copaken Kogan moved to Paris in 1988 and began knocking on photo agency doors, begging to be given a photojournalism assignment. Within weeks she was on the back of a truck in Afghanistan, the only woman—and the only journalist—in a convoy of... Read more >

The Elements of Journalism
What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, Completely Updated and Revised
Written by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-34670-4 (0-307-34670-6)

Drawn from years of intensive research, The Elements of Journalism spells out–both for those who create and those who consume the news–the principles and responsibilities of journalism. The newly updated material on current media trends addresses the rise of blogging and online media, coverage of 9/11 and the Iraq war, and... Read more >

Half the Sky
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38709-7 (0-307-38709-7)

Winner of the Stowe Award for Excellence in Writing to Advance Social Justice

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl... Read more >

Half the Sky
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26714-6 (0-307-26714-8)

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia... Read more >

Near Death on the High Seas
True Stories of Disaster and Survival
Edited by Cecil Kuhne

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27934-7 (0-307-27934-0)

“The wind was blowing at hurricane strength-sixty-five knots and over-and increasing in the gusts to eighty knots. His boat was surfing on waves as high as a sixty-foot, six-storey building. . .Each wave that struck choked and froze him, the icy water working its way down inside his survival suit.” —from... Read more >

Free Ride
How Digital Parasites Are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back
Written by Robert Levine

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-73977-3 (0-307-73977-5)

How did the newspaper, music, and film industries go from raking in big bucks to scooping up digital dimes? Their customers were lured away by the free ride of technology. Now, business journalist Robert Levine shows how they can get back on track.

On the Internet, “information wants to be free.” This... Read more >

Witness in Our Time, Second Edition
Working Lives of Documentary Photographers
Written by Ken Light

Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-298-0 (1-58834-298-0)

*An Outstanding Academic Title of 2011 — Choice Magazine

This updated classic addresses the effects of the digital age on documentary photography and includes a new section on fieldwork.

Building on the traditions and passions of their predecessors, today’s documentary photographers are devising new strategies to address the obstacles and opportunities created by... Read more >

Mencken Chrestomathy

Written by H.L. Mencken

Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 12, 1982
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-75209-9 (0-394-75209-0)

Edited and annotated by H.L.M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books—the six of the Prejudices series, A Book of Burlesques, In Defense of Women, Notes on Democracy, Making A President, A Book of Calumny, Treatise on Right and Wrong—but there are also magazine and... Read more >

My Ears Are Bent

Written by Joseph Mitchell

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72630-9 (0-375-72630-6)

As a young newspaper reporter in 1930s New York, Joseph Mitchell interviewed fan dancers, street evangelists, voodoo conjurers, not to mention a lady boxer who also happened to be a countess. Mitchell haunted parts of the city now vanished: the fish market, burlesque houses, tenement neighborhoods, and storefront churches. Whether he... Read more >

Poison Penmanship
The Gentle Art of Muckraking
Written by Jessica Mitford
Preface by Jane Smiley

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-355-8 (1-59017-355-4)

Jessica Mitford was a member of one of England’s most legendary families (among her sisters were the novelist Nancy Mitford and the current Duchess of Devonshire) and one of the great muckraking journalists of modern times. Leaving England for America, she pursued a career as an investigative reporter and unrepentant gadfly... Read more >

Hard News
Twenty-one Brutal Months at The New York Times and How They Changed the American Media
Written by Seth Mnookin

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: August 9, 2005
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7251-1 (0-8129-7251-1)

On May 11, 2003, The New York Times devoted four pages of its Sunday paper to the deceptions of Jayson Blair, a mediocre former Times reporter who had made up stories, faked datelines, and plagiarized on a massive scale. The fallout from the Blair scandal rocked the Times to its core... Read more >

Birth of a Nation'hood
Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case
Written by Toni Morrison

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: February 4, 1997
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75893-8 (0-679-75893-3)

Co-edited and introduced by Toni Morrison, Birth of a Nation'hood illuminates one of the grimmest--and most revealing--moments of recent American history: the O.J. Simpson case. As they relate to the scandal, the issues of race, sex, violence, money, and the media are refracted through the lens of twelve powerful essays, specially... Read more >

Moyers on America
A Journalist and His Times
Written by Bill Moyers

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 14, 2005
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9536-0 (1-4000-9536-0)

During the fifty years he has been variously a reporter, a political spokesperson, and a broadcaster, Bill Moyers has demonstrated a deep commitment to understanding the workings of our government and the role of the individual in society. His essays and commentaries, such as the recent “Shivers Down the Spine,” “A... Read more >

Out of Order
An incisive and boldly original critique of the news media's domination of America's political process
Written by Thomas E. Patterson

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 2, 1994
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75510-4 (0-679-75510-1)

In this pointed examination of how Americans elect their presidents, Patterson—professor of political science at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University—faults a system that relies upon the news media as chief intermediary between voter and candidate. Because the values of journalism are at odds with the values of politics, Patterson argues... Read more >