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Get the Summary of Jason Diamond's Searching for John Hughes in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Searching for John Hughes" is a memoir by Jason Diamond that chronicles his journey as a writer and his obsession with the films of John Hughes. Diamond's narrative weaves through his experiences working at a bakery, his strained relationship with his parents, and his struggles with depression and identity. He recounts...
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Get the Summary of Meg Kissinger's While You Were Out in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Raised in a North Shore Chicago neighborhood, the Kissinger children grew up in a large Catholic community. The family, with five girls and three boys born between 1952 and 1964, each had distinct personalities. Their mother, Jean, a former debutante with a genius IQ, struggled with the demands of motherhood and secretly used...
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This upbeat, funny and true story is about an American girl who found her superpowers by becoming Clark Kent. Determined to be a newspaper reporter, she discovered that the job wasn't open to girls. But she persisted, and succeeding beyond her wildest dreams, she covered some of the most tumultuous and colorful stories of her time, including the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, terrorist Sara Jane Moore's attempt to kill President Ford,...
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Claire Sulmers is the Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Fashion Bomb Daily, one of the top 50 most influential style blogs in the world. With millions of followers on Instagram, tons of traffic, and loads of likes on Facebook, she has forged her own stylish path in the notoriously cut throat fashion industry. You'll see her twirling at celebrity parties and sitting front row at fashion week--but life wasn't always so glamorous. It took 10 years of hard...
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News stories are like collective memories, encapsulating the most iconic moments in recent history around the world. But to those who work in journalism, up-close involvement with these stories can also be life-changing. In That's Why I'm a Journalist, veteran broadcaster Mark Bulgutch interviews 44 prominent Canadian journalists, who each share their behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the most memorable stories of their careers and describe the...
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Amy Calder is an award-winning newspaper reporter and columnist, covering city government and everything from murders and car crashes to fires and drug busts. Her 34-year career started at the Waterville Sentinel bureau in Skowhegan, where she served as bureau chief for several years and chased stories from Jackman to Fairfield and Farmington to Newport. Since 2009, Calder has written a weekly human interest column, "Reporting Aside," which appears...
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Drawn from Eric Hoffer's private papers as well as interviews with those who knew him, this detailed biography paints a picture of a truly original American thinker and writer. Author Tom Bethell interviewed Hoffer in the years just before his death, and his meticulous accounts of those meetings offer new insights into the man known as the "Longshoreman Philosopher."
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As they shook hands and sat down across from each other in the stark office, Rufus knew that history was being made... Chronicling the true life of Canadian newsman Lukin "Rufus" Johnson, this never-before-told biography explains how one man went from labouring across the Canadian prairies and through the farms of Ontario to becoming the first Canadian newsman to interview Hitler. After beginning his career as a journalist only to be pulled away to...
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If Not Us, Who? is both the story of an architect of the modern conservative movement and a colorful journey through a half century of high-level politics. Best known as the longtime publisher of National Review, William Rusher (1923–2011) was more than just a crucial figure in the history of the Right's leading magazine. He was a political intellectual, tactician, and strategist who helped shape the historic rise of conservatism. To write If Not...
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El infatigable Italo Calvino habría cumplido cien años el 15 de octubre de 2023 si el esfuerzo excesivo que conlleva ser, entre otras cosas, «diligente redactor editorial» no hubiera acabado con él. El presente volumen pretende ser una «semblanza demediada» del meticuloso editor y del perseverante amigo que fue; quiere reconstruir los primeros pasos del Calvino escritor, su afilada visión de la industria cultural y su forma de trabajar con...
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The legend of Harold Sterns, the Last of the Bohemians, begins in 1912 when he runs naked through Harvard Yard, a twenty-year-old man acting on impulse and looking like Shelley. At thirty-two he had left the United States, disgusted with the sordid red-baiting and prohibition snooping of the early twenties, disgusted also perhaps with himself, vowing never to return to a country so inhospitable to civilization.
Harold Stearns symbolized the bitter...
53) Cudlipp's Circus
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Award-winning Australian author Peter Thompson evokes the now-vanished world he encountered on joining 'Cudlipp's Circus' at the Daily Mirror in 1966, bringing to life the days when Fleet Street was the front-page equivalent of Dodge City and its pubs shuddered to the midnight roar of mighty rotary presses. The Mirror's daily quota of mischief, mayhem and madness attracted journalists from all over the globe. The columnist Cassandra called this convergence...
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She was Australian born, an international bestselling author and a member of the glamorous literary, intellectual and society salons of late nineteenth and early twentieth century London and Europe
She was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. She was a whirlwind. She created around her the atmosphere of a Court, at which her friends were either in disgrace or favour, a butt or a blessing.
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For thousands of Canadians, Margaret Wente is the columnist who makes sense of daily issues and events. Even when they disagree with her conclusions and fire off angry letters in response, most readers of The Globe and Mail still report that her column is the first thing they turn to in the newspaper. When The Economist chose the most influential newspaper columnists in 20 countries, Margaret Wente was the only Canadian journalist to make the list.
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This is the story of one of the most important American newspapermen of the twentieth century. Roy Howard rose to prominence at the height of newspapers' power and became a leader in the evolution of print news starting in 1908, when E. W. Scripps appointed him head of the fledgling United Press at age 25, through his tenure as chairman of the Scripps-Howard empire until 1952. As Howard expanded and modernized the business, he landed some of the most...
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By the beginning of 1982, Adam Carr had started to hear about a 'new' disease apparently affecting mostly gay men and his first ever article on AIDS appeared in GCN in February of that year. It carried the rather flippant title "Will We All Die of 'Gay Cancer'?" This reflected the skepticism with which Adam, like most gay activists and journalists, received the initial reports that there was an outbreak of cancer specific to gay men.
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Nada es tan lacerante, para un periodista, como la indiferencia ante las injusticias cotidianas, diríase que eternas, cuya crónica se esfuerza en transmitir. Y ese es, precisamente, uno de los más graves pecados de este nuestro "primer mundo". Fede Merino ha viajado como periodista por las diversas cartografías de esa injusticia, de manera especial en América. Ha cosechado allí historias y vivencias que nos hablan con crudeza y sin disimulos...
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I'm That Guy is a collection for "Outtake" columns by Rick Outzen that he published in his weekly newspaper, The Independent News. The columns show his struggle to help his paper and Northwest Florida battle the "storms" of hurricanes, oil spills and corrupt politicians. Someone has to be that guy that challenges the status quo. Rick Outzen is that guy. Rick writes about covering Hurricane Ivan, the sensational murder case of Byrd and Melanie Billings,...
60) Summary of The Rainbow Comes and Goes: by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt | Includes Analysis
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Summary of The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt | Includes Analysis Preview: The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt is the result of a year of email exchanges between a son and his mother. They explore themes of life, love, and loss. When Vanderbilt was nearing her ninety-first birthday, she was hospitalized with a respiratory infection. This led Cooper to consider her mortality and to wonder...
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