James Bellows: The Last Editor

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A Matter of Policy

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Psmith, Journalist

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On Democracy

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Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties

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The Sinking Admiral

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Psmith, Journalist (Unabridged)

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Odyssey of the West VI: A Classic Education through the Great Books: The Twentieth Century

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The City and the Pillar: A Novel

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Get the Damn Story: Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers

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Main Street: 100th Anniversary Edition

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Twenty-five Books That Shaped America

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Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

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The Money Game

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Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

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The Letters of Mark Twain

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Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts

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The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism

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The Conversation Continues

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America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I): From the Age of Discovery to a World at War

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The Long History Of Presidents As Authors

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The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

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Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market

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Theodore Roosevelt - The Youngest American President

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Suppressed: Confessions of a Former New York Times Washington Correspondent

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The Lusitania Murders

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Views from a Window: Conversations with Gore Vidal

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The Lion of Round Top: The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War

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Mark Twain 3 Complete Works: The Letters Of Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer

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The Sun Also Rises

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Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America

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On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft

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Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

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Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter

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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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Summary: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen By David Brooks: Key Takeaways, Summary and Analysis

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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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Learn Spanish with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course: Spanish Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

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Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds

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The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life

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The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot

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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

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The Six Cs of Effective Storytelling

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Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

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A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

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On Writing Well Audio Collection

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Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer (A 6-Week Artist's Way Program)

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Mastering Logical Fallacies: The Definitive Guide to Flawless Rhetoric and Bulletproof Logic

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The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

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Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

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Learn French with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course: French Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

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Summary: Quiet by Susan Cain

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Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style

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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

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The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase

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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text

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Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

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Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity

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Robert Lipsyte, “An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir” (Ecco, 2011): In the summer of 1957, Robert Lipsyte answered a classified ad. He was an English major who needed some cash, and The New York Times was looking for an editorial assistant. He went to work on the night shift in the sports department,

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John Dickerson on The Presidency Post Corona: Will a new American president lead us to a post-Corona return to normal? Or has the American presidency become an impossible job? It is, according to 60 Minutes correspondent John Dickerson, “The Hardest Job In The World”. Has the American presidency finally met its match in a global pandemic?

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How Award-Winning Debut Novelist Bryan Washington Writes: #PodcastersForJustice New York Times Notable author, Bryan Washington, dropped by to chat about how his short stories garnered so much acclaim, what cuisine tells us about the larger narrative around sharing a meal, and why writers need to ignore the...

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#336 The War on Newspaper Row: The newspapers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst -- the New York World and the New York Journal -- were locked in a fierce competition for readers in the mid 1890s. New Yorkers loved it. The paper's sensational style was so shocking that it became known as "yellow journalism". So what happens when those flamboyant publications are given an international conflict to write about? On February 15, 1898, the USS Mainemysteriously exploded while stationed in Havana Harbor in Cuba. While President McKinley urged calm and patience, two New York newspapers jumped to a hasty conclusion -- Spain had destroyed the ship! The Spanish-American War allowed Hearst (with Pulitzer playing catch up) fresh opportunities to sell newspapers using exaggerated reports, melodramatic illustration and even outlandish stunts. (Think Hearst on a yacht, barreling into conflicts where he didn't belong.) But by 1899, with the war only a recent memory, the publishers face

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Elizabeth Becker, "You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War" (PublicAffairs, 2021): An interview with Elizabeth Becker

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#400 Jacob Riis: 'The Other Half' of the Gilded Age: In 1890 Jacob Riis turned his eye-opening reporting about New York's tenement districts into a ground-breaking book called How The Other Half Lives, a book which awoke Americans to the plight of the poor and laid the groundwork for the Progressive Era.

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Ep. 79 - Exploding the Classic American Western, with Tom Lin: What happens when an author takes a genre that's considered a bedrock of American culture and flips the wagon upside-down? As Tom Lin puts it, “I’m not following the rules of the American Western.”

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Episode 3: Steve Kettmann: Sportswriter, collaborator, editor, publisher…Steve Kettmann has just about covered the publishing waterfront. Perhaps his biggest success on the ghostwriting front was his 2005 collaboration with outsized baseball slugger Jose Canseco, , which made...

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Whittaker Chambers and the Freight Train of History: Matt and Sam discuss the life and times of Whittaker Chambers, the Communist spy who became a conservative hero.

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In Search of Anti-Semitism (w/ John Ganz): John Ganz returns to discuss William F. Buckley's 1992 book "In Search of Anti-Semitism."

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Benjamin Myers

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Tina Brown (Editor: Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, more): A conversation with editor and author Tina Brown (Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Tatler, more)

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The Best of 2018: Seymour Hersh on Trump, Barbara Ehrenreich on ‘Wellness,’ and Amos Oz Remembered: Our most popular interviews of the year, starting with Seymour Hersh, one of our heroes; he says “don’t underestimate Trump.”  He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his expose of the My Lai massacre—he was a 33-year-old freelancer at the time. Since then...

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How Editor-in-Chief of the LA Review of Books Tom Lutz Writes: Award-winning author, founder and editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books, Tom Lutz, took a timeout to talk with me about his early years as a literary ne'er-do-well, what it's like to hang out with your heroes, and why you can assume every...

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What I Found Written in the Margin

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#335 Pulitzer vs Hearst: The Rise of Yellow Journalism: In the 1890s, powerful New York publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst engaged in an all-out battle for readers of their respective newspapers, developing a flamboyant, sensational style of coverage today referred to as "yellow journalism". This battle between the New York World and the New York Journal would determine the direction of the American media landscape and today we still feel its aftermath -- from melodramatic headlines to the birth of eyewitness reporting and so-called "fake news".  The two men come from very different backgrounds. Pulitzer, a Hungarian immigrant who started his publishing empire in St. Louis, used the World to highlight injustices upon the working class and to promote worthy civic projects (like the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty). Hearst, himself the wealthy publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, entered the New York publishing world, specifically aimed at competing with Puli

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James Altucher On The Art of Thinking Differently — Adventures In Minimalism, Stand Up Comedy & Crypto-Currency: “You can’t write until you do.” James Altucher When someone fires off a long list of occupations in conversation, my...

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RFT 596: Medivac Pilot Bud Willis: Named Tennessee's Outstanding Young Man for service to his community, state and country, Bud Willis has been well recognized for his first book, , released in 2009, now in its second printing. A native Tennessean, Willis grew up in Tullahoma, and...

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Episode 563: Cal Thomas on 50 Years in Journalism

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Revisiting 'Wisconsin Death Trip,' 50 Years Later: The Times's critic Dwight Garner looks back on Michael Lesy's cult classic of documentary literature, which was first published in 1973.

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770. Steve Almond

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Episode 154: Gay Talese Reveals How He Captured Frank Sinatra

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A chat about the origin of conservatism: William F. Buckley Jr. was the foremost architect of the conservative movement that transformed American politics between the 1960s and the end of the century. When Buckley launched National Review in 1955, conservatism was a beleaguered, fringe...

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The intersection of Wall Street & Washington with William D. Cohan

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257. The Image by Daniel J. Boorstin Book Summary: Does image-based media make us think less about our principles and ideals, and more about pursuing mere appearances? Daniel J. Boorstin thought so. In his book, , Boorstin breaks down why “The Graphic Revolution,” has built a world where our...

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Tony Tedeschi - Talks about his novel - Unfinished Business, Writing Techniques, and Life Stories - 407: Tony Tedeschi talks about his novel - Unfinished Business, Writing Techniques, and Life Stories. This is episode 407 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. In many respects, Tony Tedeschi's new novel, "Unfinished Business," is an outgrowth...

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William E. Ellis, “Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of an American Humorist” (UP of Kentucky, 2017): Today Irvin S. Cobb is remembered primarily as an author of humorous tales about life in Kentucky. Yet as William E. Ellis describes in his book Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of an American Humorist (University Press of Kentucky, 2017),

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Robert O’Kell, “Disraeli: The Romance of Politics” (U. of Toronto Press, 2014): Benjamin Disraeli was unique among British prime ministers in the 19th century in many ways, but perhaps none more so than for his career as a novelist. Whereas many scholars have treated Disraeli’s literary endeavors as an aberration born of financial...

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Robert O’Kell, “Disraeli: The Romance of Politics” (U. of Toronto Press, 2014): Benjamin Disraeli was unique among British prime ministers in the 19th century in many ways, but perhaps none more so than for his career as a novelist. Whereas many scholars have treated Disraeli’s literary endeavors as an aberration born of financial...

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Words Matter Library: Four Friends by William D. Cohan