The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat
5 best books like The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat (Edna Buchanan): What It Takes: The Way to the White House, The Powers That Be, Outlaw Journalist, The Boys on the Bus, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
| Author | Richard Ben Cramer |
| ISBN | 0679746498 |
An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the...
| Author | David Halberstam |
| ISBN | 0252069412 |
This week, I finished two books that both merit extremely high praise. One is Andrew Bacevich's most recent study of America's ineptitude at trying to subdue the Greater Middle East, and the second is this book by David Halberstam.
Halberstam's premature death from a car accident in 2007 marked...
| Author | William McKeen |
| ISBN | 0393061922 |
Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his early magazine pieces and revelatory "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Fear and Loathing" campaign coverage in Rolling Stone. When Thompson was on, there was no one better at capturing who Americans were and...
| Author | Timothy Crouse |
| ISBN | 0812968204 |
Cheap booze. Flying fleshpots. Lack of sleep. Endless spin. Lying pols.
Just a few of the snares lying in wait for the reporters who covered the 1972 presidential election. Traveling with the press pack from the June primaries to the big night in November, Rolling Stone reporter Timothy Crouse...
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
| Author | Samuel P. Huntington |
| ISBN | 0684844419 |
"Sam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scientists, presents a challenging framework for understanding the realities of global politics in the next century. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is one of the most important books to have emerged since the end...
