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Yvan Tetelbom nous raconte son errance dans un monde trop violent, mais aussi sa reconstruction rendue possible grâce à la poésie.
Un enfant insouciant, émerveillé par la vie, est soudain figé dans son élan par la destruction de son innocence, dont la déflagration le projette dans un monde trop dur pour lui. Un chemin d'errance et de solitude au cours duquel il est confronté à la violence de la guerre d'Algérie, à la douleur de l'exil,...
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If it is true that the pen is mightier than the sword and that one picture is worth a thousand words, Thomas Nast must certainly rank as one of the most influential personalities in nineteenth-century American history. His pen, dipped in satire, aroused an apathetic, disinterested, and uninformed public to indignation and action more than once. The most notable Nast campaign, and probably the one best recorded today, was directed against New York...
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Découvrez les pensées, le vécu et les sentiments d'une jeune femme qui doit affronter les mystères de la vie et du suicide de son père.
Récit sensible d'un deuil et d'une quête de sens, Ianthe Brautigan, fille de l'écrivain culte Richard Brautigan, dresse un portrait intime et pudique de son père.
Ce livre contient également de nombreuses photos inédites.
Ianthe Brautigan, d'une langue juste et sobre, dresse un portrait intime et pudique...
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“Diary of a Scaredy Cat: a year in the life of a frightened writer”. Diane Wordsworth was struggling to get back into the swing of being a full-time freelance writer. She'd done it very well in the past, thank you very much. But years of editing books for various publishers had taken her out of the discipline of the freelance writing world and she needed to get back in. When she met her future husband in 2013, he very quickly encouraged her to...
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A Pulitzer Prize–winning combat correspondent recounts his personal experience of covering World War II on the front lines.
Legendary reporter Don Whitehead covered almost every important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe-from North Africa to landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, and Normandy, and to the drive into Germany. His dispatches, published in Beachhead Don, are treasures of wartime journalism.
From September 1942, as a freshly minted...
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Dominick Dunne seemed to live his entire adult life in the public eye, but in this biography Robert Hofler reveals a conflicted, enigmatic man who reinvented himself again and again. As a television and film producer in the 1950s-1970s, hobnobbing with Humphrey Bogart and Natalie Wood, he found success and crushing failure in a pitiless Hollywood. As a Vanity Fair journalist covering the lives of the rich and powerful, he mesmerized readers with his...
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“Behind the Mic” takes the reader into radio newsrooms and on the air from the 1970s and on. It details some of the region's major events from the Saint John jail fire to the Westray Mine explosion. Readers will also learn about the inner workings of a news department and those who bring us the news each day.
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"It's hard to know when you're having a breakdown in New York City. The symptoms of living here, succeeding here, and losing your mind here are almost identical." So begins Matousek's 1996 breakout memoir about leaving a fast-track publishing life (working for pop artist Andy Warhol at Interview Magazine) and hitting the dharma trail in search of a meaningful life and spiritual wisdom. Hailed by Publisher's Weekly as "brave, beautiful, and brilliantly...
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How the US Army developed historical programs since World War I-sending combat historians into the fray to interview soldiers and collect documents for the benefit of history.
In World War I, Major General Pershing proposed the idea of establishing a historical office within the AEF headquarters. The War Department reorganized the General Staff to include a Historical Branch. Evidence shows that soldiers acting as historians went "down range,"...
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Huell Howser, the exuberant, hugely popular host of California's Gold and other public-television shows, was always exclaiming to the camera in his Southern drawl, "Louie, take a look at this!" Now, three years after Howser's death, Louie-aka Luis Fuerte, a five-time Emmy-winning cameraman-shares the stories of their adventures exploring California, making great television, and showcasing Howser's infectious love for the Golden State. During their...
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Make those writing, dreams a reality with this comprehensive guide of publishing secrets, which will, show you how, to go from staring at an empty page, to becoming a published author. Sound familiar? In all honesty, it's never been easier or cheaper to get your book published.
Equally, there are numerous book publishing gurus selling the idea, that writers can become successful authorpreneurs, if they follow their respective tips, usually at a hefty...
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"A fearless deep dive into the 2020 election from former MSNBC "Road Warrior" and now NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali, who covered the campaign trail every step of the way--investigating the gendered double standards placed on women presidential candidates of that cycle and those who came before, and what it will take for a woman to finally break the glass ceiling and win the White House"--
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In The Inconvenient Journalist, Dusko Doder, writing with his spouse and journalistic partner Louise Branson, describes how one February night crystalized the values and personal risks that shaped his life. The frigid Moscow night in question was in 1984, and Washington Post correspondent Doder reported signs that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov had died. The CIA at first dismissed the reporting, saying that "Doder must be smoking pot." When Soviet authorities...
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The one real difference between the American press and the Soviet state newspaper Pravda was that the Russian people knew they were being lied to. To expose the lies our media tell us today, controversial journalist James O’Keefe created Project Veritas, an independent news organization whose reporters go where traditional journalists dare not. In American Pravda, the reader is invited to go undercover with these intrepid journalists as they...
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Meet a man who actually listens to women. An award-winning investigative journalist tells poignant stories in this compulsively readable memoir, each revealing a profound moment when a woman said something that he actually heard, transforming his life for the better. With more than 50 photos, plus dozens of links to bonus audio and video, each chapter is an immersive experience that grabs hold and does not let go.
Stuart Watson spent his first career...
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'How long does a column take? Well it's 1,150 words and it takes usually between two and three hours to write down. But in reality it has taken me somewhere between three hours and the entirety of my life since I was eight years old.'
Writing on everything from a defense of suburban life and moderate politics to big ideas and pop culture, Daniel Finkelstein is one of the UK's most entertaining and widely read columnists. This collection brings together...
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A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure's and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm-as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America
The president of the United States made headlines around the world when he publicly attacked the press, denouncing reporters who threatened his reputation as "muckrakers" and "forces for evil." The year was 1906, the president was Theodore...
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How free are the media in Europe? Freedom of the press and an independent media system are often taken for granted and all of the EU-member states today have implemented guarantees of press freedom in their constitutions and judicial systems. In “Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe”, researchers from twelve countries examine media systems regarding conditions for independence and pluralism. They discuss a European approach to press freedom and...
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Harriet Hubbard Ayer moved to New York City by 1883 and established Recamier Preparations, Inc., the earliest cosmetic company owned and operated by a woman. First with her creams and balms and then with her words about women's health and beauty, she influenced several generations of women to look and feel good about themselves. The jealous and vindictive men in her life punished her for her ambition, accomplishments and independence by attempting...
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In this compelling tale, Judy Foreman reveals the terror she felt
every night as a girl as she lay in bed frozen in dread, listening for
her father's footsteps coming down the hall.
She recalls his
mostly naked body, his stale smell, his silhouette in the bedroom
doorway. Worse, in some ways, was her mother's denial-her insistence
that this man was wonderful, her refusal to acknowledge his drinking or
his rage. It wasn't until Foreman spent...
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