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645) Edward R. Murrow
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Follows the career of the foreign correspondent whose radio news broadcsts during World War II made history and enabled him to expand into television journalism.
647) Eighty days
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On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, a crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day, heading in the opposite direction by train, was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland. Each woman was determined to outdo Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle...
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Using a house as a metaphor for her life, Williams names each chapter for an area. In each, she introduces listeners to the people who have influenced her life. Memories lead her to meditations on American culture. Through her disarming prose, the layers of her life take on shimmering new hues.
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" Robert Sengstacke Abbott: A Man, a Paper, and a Parade is the biography of Robert Abbott, who founded The Chicago Defender, one of the first influential newspapers for African Americans, in 1905. Through the medium of this publication, Robert Abbott was able to uplift and inspire generations of African Americans and to encourage them to fight for equality during a time when many were deprived of basic freedoms and were under the thumb of Jim Crow...
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