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After a career in journalism culminating in his twenty-two years as anchor of the NBC Nightly News and as bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, comes a powerful memoir of a year of dramatic change--a year spent battling cancer and reflecting on a long, happy, and lucky life.
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When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within hours, Russian bombs would nearly end his life. As a journalist for Fox News, Hall had worked in dangerous war zones like Syria and Afghanistan, but with three young daughters at home, life on the edge was supposed to be a thing of the past. Yet when Russia viciously attacked Ukraine in February 2022, Hall quickly volunteered to go....
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
c2003
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IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"Nellie Bly wasn't always Nellie Bly. First she was Elizabeth Cochrane, a shy girl from Cochran's Mill, Pennsylvania. All her life Elizabeth had been told, 'girls can't do this' and 'girls can't do that.' But Elizabeth didn't believe it...so one day she set out to prove it..."
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One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
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Written by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer covers Wells' early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance, and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist.
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Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2022.
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"Close-Up on War tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the Vietnam War's few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the 20-year conflict. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a "man's world," she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers' slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through rice paddies, and became the only official photojournalist...
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Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt reminisces about growing up with a father who loved his children unconditionally, how her Christian faith has shaped her life, and the journalism career that has made her a household name. From a sit-down with Melania Trump to her live coverage of Pope Francis' visit to New York to becoming a cohost of Fox & Friends and contributor to Hannity, Ainsley considers the factors guilding her professional journey. Ainsley credits...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
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In The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan gives readers a compelling and personal behind-the-scenes look at race relations in contemporary America from the epicenter of American power and policy making--the White House, her beat since 1997. On behalf of the American Urban Radio Networks, and through her "Fabric of America" news blog, she delivers her readership and listeners (millions of African Americans and close to 300 radio affiliates)...
14) Ida B. Wells
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Presents the life and accomplishments of the activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragette, and pioneering voice against the horrors of lynching who set out to better the lives of African-Americans long before the Civil Rights Movement.
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Called 'disgraceful, ' 'third-rate, ' and 'not nice' by Donald Trump, NBC News correspondent Katy Tur reported on -- and took flak from -- the most volatile presidential candidate in American history. Katy Tur lived out of a suitcase for a year and a half, following Trump around the country, powered by packets of peanut butter and kept clean with dry shampoo. She visited forty states with the candidate, made more than 3,800 live television reports,...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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The award-winning broadcast journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades.
Los Angeles in 1967 was deeply segregated. Born from an affair and an unplanned pregnancy, Morial was raised largely by her father and his family, and grew up with no knowledge...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
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"When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she'd given up as she left New York, her home of thirty years, she tried to knit herself into the fabric of a changed London. The move raised poignant questions about place: What does it mean to leave the...
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Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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"Fans are always asking Tomi Lahren where she gained the confidence and candor that have made her who she is: a celebrated free-speech advocate, a conservative media star, and one of the most controversial pundits in America. In Never Play Dead, Tomi cheers on anyone, especially other young women willing to speak their minds. She takes readers on a tour of the internet trolls, political correctness police, campus activists, and condescending elites...
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Penguin
Pub. Date
2023.
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"The Soldier's Truth brings to life Ernie Pyle's years as a combat journalist in World War II. With a background in helping veterans and other survivors of trauma come to terms with their experiences through storytelling, the author brings empathy and insight to bear on Pyle's experiences. A tribute to an ordinary American hero whose impact on the war is still little understood, as well as a reckoning with that war's impact and how it is remembered,...
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