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Books from/about reporters or journalists?
Posted on 9/23/19 at 8:25 am
Posted on 9/23/19 at 8:25 am
Any good recommendations on books about or authored by reporters, journalists, even weather reporters, and their various stories and events they've covered (e.g., various wars or conflicts, natural disasters, famous court cases, terroristic attacks, Royal weddings, etc).
I'm sure some are very self-serving, but it is a topic that certainly interests me - getting their first-hand view on said subject matter.
I'm sure some are very self-serving, but it is a topic that certainly interests me - getting their first-hand view on said subject matter.
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Posted on 9/23/19 at 6:02 pm to GentleJackJones
As you may or may not know, Mark Bowden is a journalist-turned-author.
His books are simply fantastic:
Killing Pablo
Guests of the Ayatollah
Blackhawk Down
I would be remiss if I didn't include the tidbit that he is FSU's Bobby Bowden's first cousin, once removed.
His books are simply fantastic:
Killing Pablo
Guests of the Ayatollah
Blackhawk Down
I would be remiss if I didn't include the tidbit that he is FSU's Bobby Bowden's first cousin, once removed.
Posted on 9/25/19 at 1:33 am to GentleJackJones
Anything by A.J. Liebling
Anything by Joseph Mitchell ("McSorley's Wonderful Saloon")
The Boys On The Bus by Timothy Crouse
Positively Fifth Street by James MacManus
There was so much interest in Richard Burton's performance as Hamlet on Broadway in 1964 that not one but two cast members wrote books about it:
Anything by Joseph Mitchell ("McSorley's Wonderful Saloon")
The Boys On The Bus by Timothy Crouse
Positively Fifth Street by James MacManus
There was so much interest in Richard Burton's performance as Hamlet on Broadway in 1964 that not one but two cast members wrote books about it:
quote:Avoid Capote's In Cold Blood -- much of that is invented.
Interest in the production inspired books by cast members William Redfield and Richard L. Sterne. Sterne went to the length of hiding a tape recorder in a briefcase at rehearsals to get accurate transcriptions of what was said. Stern hid, under a part of the set, for six hours, to record Gielgud and Burton in their private meeting the day before the first performance
Posted on 9/26/19 at 12:17 pm to GentleJackJones
All the President's Men - Woodward and Bernstein
If you like fiction, Michael Connelly was a journalist for the LA Times working the crime beat. I love his books.
If you like fiction, Michael Connelly was a journalist for the LA Times working the crime beat. I love his books.
Posted on 9/27/19 at 11:04 am to GentleJackJones
I remember reading The Camera Never Blinks by Dan Rather while I was in high school and being impressed. He wrote it in '77, so it covers his early career, well before the uproar over his coverage of GW Bush and such.
Posted on 9/28/19 at 12:35 am to Kafka
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Anything by A.J. Liebling
Reading The Earl of Louisiana made me dream of being able to expense a couple weeks eating and drinking in New Orleans.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 8:43 am to GentleJackJones
Jake Tapper wrote the Outpost, about the Taliban attack on COP Keating. Not a big fan of Tapper but he did really well on that book.
Posted on 10/7/19 at 3:40 pm to GentleJackJones
Semi-tough by Dan Jenkins, Hilarious
Posted on 10/7/19 at 4:44 pm to GentleJackJones
David Halberstam wrote quite a few books on 20th-century American History. The Best and the Brightest is his best-known book, about the Kennedy administration and the years leading to Vietnam.
Posted on 11/6/19 at 12:53 am to GentleJackJones
The Forever War, forget the author, been a while. About the war in Afhanistan with a good but of history about the culture and history there and the challenges it creates
War by Sebastian Junger, also about the Afghanistan War
War by Sebastian Junger, also about the Afghanistan War
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