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The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken
Harpercollins. 11/01/2003. Reprint. 410 pgs. This life of Mencken, the first major effort in 20 years, covers not only his prolific and influential career as a journalist, but his anti-Semitism and his initial failure to condemn the Nazis. Mencken is viewed as an important muckraker and intellectual--a driving force in the world of American thought and letters. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. Originally published at $15.95 You save 89% off the cover price!
$3.46 economy shipping in the U.S. (and only $1.75 for each additional book from this seller)! Harper Perennial, 2003-11-01. Paperback. text/binding is clean&crisp. 100% guaranteed. No hassle return policy. (more information)
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Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son
Houghton Mifflin. 01/07/2005. Reprint. 256 pgs. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!
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"People`s Witness: The Journalist in Modern Politics [Hardcover] (Qty: 75)
Yale Univ Pr. 06/01/2002. 416 pgs. Originally published at $48.00 You save 96% off the cover price!
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How To Lose Friends And Alienate People: A Memoir (Qty: 2)
Perseus Books Group. 05/01/2003. Reprint. 340 pgs. This memoirist gossips about his own termination from the newsrooms at Vanity Fair, London's Evening Standard, and finally, Gear. Originally published at $14.95 You save 87% off the cover price!
$3.99 economy shipping in the U.S. (and only $2.49 for each additional book from this seller)! Da Capo Press, 2003-06-04. Paperback. Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. (more information)
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The Gift of Jazzy
St Martins Pr. 01/01/2004. Reprint. 272 pgs. New York Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams shares stories about life with her beloved Yorkshire terrier, Jazzy. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!
$4.50 economy shipping in the U.S. (and only $1.75 for each additional book from this seller)! New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 2004. ISBN: 0312326068. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. JOURNALISTS BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY GENERAL. (more information)
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A Life of Privilege, Mostly
St Martins Pr. 01/01/2003. Illustrated. 272 pgs. Gardner Botsford--heir to the Fleischmann's Yeast fortune--has been an intelligence officer in World War II, a socialite man-about-town, and--finally--an editor at The New Yorker, which was published by his father Raoul Fleischmann. He recalls a long and eventful life and includes many illuminating (and amusing) anecdotes about some of the 20th-century's brightest lights, including Harpo Marx, Alexander Woollcott, and the legendary editors and writers at The New Yorker. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. Originally published at $24.95 You save 92% off the cover price!
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American Son
St Martins Pr. 11/01/2002. Originally published at $6.99 You save 72% off the cover price!
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Ava's Man
Random House Inc. 08/01/2001. Illustrated. 304 pgs. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg was born a year after his maternal grandfather died in 1958, but resurrects him here, in this portrait of the grandfather he never knew. Researching the life of this much-loved patriarch brings Bragg to the Appalachian foothills, and back in time to a South that is no more. Originally published at $25.00 You save 92% off the cover price!
$3.25 economy shipping in the U.S. (and only $1.75 for each additional book from this seller)! Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Hard Cover. Good/Good. cover and pages clean, binding secure. dust jacket clean, front edge bent.**Fast Shipping! - Free USPS tracking number emailed with each order over $1.00** (more information)
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Personal History
Random House Inc. 03/01/1998. Reprint. The autobiography of the Washington socialite, power broker, and publisher of the Washington Post. Originally published at $15.95 You save 94% off the cover price!
$3.50 economy shipping in the U.S. (and only $1.00 for each additional book from this seller)! NY: Vintage Books, 1997. Soft Cover 1st Edition 5th Printing F 642 pp - indexed. Trade Paper. Crisp and clean. ISBN: 0-375-70104-4 (more information)
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Looking for My Country : Finding Myself in America
Bantam Dell Pub Group. 05/01/2003. 203 pgs. Newsman Robert MacNeil reminisces about his life: his Nova Scotia childhood, his years of living in England, the beginnings of his career in America, the dramatic events to which he has been witness, and the public-television news program he has been hosting since 1975. Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!
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It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, but Didn't We Have Fun? : Esquire in the Sixties
W W Norton & Co Inc. 08/01/1995. A history of Esquire, with in-depth looks at editor Harold Hayes, and writers Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, William F. Buckley, Jr., Simone de Beauvoir, Gay Talese, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, and Garry Wills. Originally published at $27.50 You save 93% off the cover price!
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Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby (New York Review Books Classics)
Random House Inc. 09/01/2003. Reprint. 388 pgs. Originally published at $16.95 You save 94% off the cover price!
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The Writing Trade : A Year in the Life
Penguin USA. 01/01/1992. 255 pgs. Originally published at $21.00 You save 91% off the cover price!
$3.90 economy shipping in the U.S. (and only $1.70 for each additional book from this seller)! Viking Adult. Used - Very Good. Hardcover w / dustjacket. Very good condition; edges, corners, and covers of book show minor wear. No underlining; no highlighting; no internal markings. DJ is Very Good. 1992. Hardcover w / dustjacket. (more information)
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Robert Maxwell: Israel's Superspy : The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul
Pub Group West. 11/01/2002. 448 pgs. Was British businessman Robert Maxwell murdered by the Israeli secret service? What was his connection to Mossad? Here, two journalists put forth their theories of the case. Originally published at $27.00 You save 96% off the cover price!
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Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion ... (Contemporary Authors New Revision Series)
Gale Group. 06/01/2002. Originally published at $225.00 You save 100% off the cover price!
$ economy shipping in the U.S. (and only $ for each additional book from this seller)! Gale Cengage. Hardcover. 0787646148 A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. 2002 Gale Cengage Hard Cover volume 105 . Very Good. 2002. (more information)
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Contemporary Authors Cumulative Index: Contemporary Authors Volumes 1-203: Contemporary Authors New Revision Series Vol 1-110 (Contemporary Authors)
Gale Group. 11/01/2002. Originally published at $35.00 You save 95% off the cover price!
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The Patron: A Life of Salman Schocken, 1877-1959
Henry Holt & Co. 09/01/2004. Reprint. 451 pgs. Salman Schocken (1877-1959) was a self-educated omnivorous reader from Poland who made a fortune in Germany as a businessman, publisher, and patron of such writers as Kafka, Buber, and Agnon. In the late 1930s, he fled the Nazis and came to New York to found Schocken Books. Schocken was not only a committed bibliophile and intellectual, but an early supporter of Israel, where he lived part-time until the end of his life. This biography provides a thorough look at Schocken's life and influence. Originally published at $18.00 You save 90% off the cover price!
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The Secret Life of Walter Winchell
Natl Book Network. 01/01/2004. 256 pgs. Originally published at $12.00 You save 87% off the cover price!
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Afterglow: A Last Conversation With Pauline Kael
Perseus Books Group. 09/01/2003. Reprint. 144 pgs. Originally published at $13.95 You save 91% off the cover price!
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CAD: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor
Hyperion Books. 02/01/2004. Reprint. Originally published at $19.00 You save 95% off the cover price!
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Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul (Qty: 2)
Pub Group West. 11/01/2003. Reprint. 448 pgs. Originally published at $15.00 You save 90% off the cover price!
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Looking for My Country: Finding Myself in America
Harcourt. 04/01/2004. Reprint. 224 pgs. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!
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Dear Pussycat : Mash Notes and Missives from the Desk of Cosmopolitan's Legendary Editor
St Martins Pr. 04/01/2004. 256 pgs. Almost 300 letters--lively, garrulous, revealing, droll, gossipy--are gathered here, written by legendary Cosmo editor Helen Gurley Brown to everyone from family and lovers to colleagues and doctors. Included are the letters she wrote to her mother--one a day when she was a young woman who had left home in Arkansas to make a life in New York City. Originally published at $23.95 You save 95% off the cover price!
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This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV (Qty: 21)
Berkley Pub Group. 01/01/2004. Reprint. 464 pgs. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!
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Almost There (Qty: 3)
Berkley Pub Group. 03/01/2004. Reprint. 288 pgs. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!
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Off Ramp : Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere
Henry Holt & Co. 07/06/2004. 293 pgs. Originally published at $24.00 You save 96% off the cover price!
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