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Newspaper Writers: New York Times Writers, Nicholas Lemann, Chris Hedges, Roger Cohen, David Stout, Jeff Koyen, Edith Evans Asbury |
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English |
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Paperback |
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86 |
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2010-06-14 |
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1158225687 |
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Books LLC |
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0.3 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.2 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: New York Times Writers, Nicholas Lemann, Chris Hedges, Roger Cohen, David Stout, Jeff Koyen, Edith Evans Asbury, Jon Lee Anderson, George Johnson, E. J. Dionne, Bob Herbert, Edmund Andrews, Barbara Crossette, Natalie Angier, Maria Aspan, John M. Crewdson, Helene Cooper, Anthony Decurtis, Erin Arvedlund, Alan Cowell, Dan Barry, Burton Crane, Khalid Hassan, Amy Harmon. Excerpt: Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont) is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies. His most recent book, which he discussed on CSPAN's Booktv , is Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009). Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A quote from the book was used as the opening title quotation in the critically-acclaimed and Academy Award-winning 2009 film, The Hurt Locker. The quote reads: "The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug." Chris Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years. In 2002, Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received in 2002 the Amnesty International Global Aw... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1959465
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