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Breaking News
How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and
Everything Else
by the reporters of the Associated Press
Foreword by David Halberstam
ISBN: 9781568986890
$35.00 Hardcover
Princeton Architectural Press
In Breaking News, the Associated Press throws
open its archives and invites readers into its news
bureaus and out into the field to witness first hand its
groundbreaking reporting on presidents, elections, wars,
civil rights, trials and crimes, disasters, business,
and major sports events. The book conveys--through
personal accounts, archival materials, interviews, and
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs--how the AP became
the world's largest news organization and how it
continues to play a vital role in providing the news to
the American and international press. |
Cannibal Island
Death in a Siberian Gulag
by Nicolas Werth
Foreword by Jan T. Gross
ISBN: 9780691130835
$24.95 Hardcover
Princeton University Press
During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up
nearly 100,000 people as part of the Soviet regime's
"cleansing" of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to
Siberia. Many of the victims were sent to labor camps,
but 10,000 of them were dumped in a remote wasteland and
left to fend for themselves. Cannibal Island
reveals the shocking, grisly truth about their fate.
Nicolas Werth, a French historian of the Soviet era,
reconstructs their gruesome final days using rare
archival material from deep inside the Stalinist vaults.
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F5
The Devastating Tornado Outbreak of 1974
by Mark Levine
ISBN: 9781401352202
$25.95 Hardcover
Miramax Books
For a 16-hour period in April 1974, nature displayed
its brand of mayhem with an unprecedented outbreak of
148 tornadoes covering 13 states in the heart of the
country. Like the best nonfiction, F5 is a
brilliantly crafted page-turner that reads with the
immediacy of a novel, telling the harrowing story of
natural disaster against the backdrop of the turbulent
1970s. Acclaimed journalist Mark Levine follows the
heart-wrenching fate of a rich cast of intertwined
characters--ordinary Americans whose lives are
transformed in a terrifying instant. |
I Am the Grand Canyon
The Story of the Havasupai People
by Stephen Hirst
ISBN: 9780938216865
$18.95 Paperback
Grand Canyon Association
I Am the Grand Canyon is the story of the
Havasupai people. From their origins among the first
group of Indians to arrive in North America some 20,000
years ago to their epic struggle to regain traditional
lands taken from them in the 19th century, the Havasupai
have a long and colorful history. The story of this tiny
tribe depicts a people with deep cultural ties to the
land, both on their former reservation below the rim of
the Grand Canyon and on the surrounding plateaus. This
book is the story of a heroic people who refused to back
down when facing overwhelming odds.
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