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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Camera Never Blinks	Dan Rather	This controversial autobiography is by one of the best known and most respected TV newscasters.	OL121021W
Journey of a Lifetime	Alan Whicker	The iconic broadcasting legend dusts down his suitcase for a final journey around the globe, revisiting locations of significance to his life and career.You might say I'm set in my airways. I'm one o…	OL15185557W
Bitch Is the New Black	Helena Andrews	Meet Helena Andrews, sassy, single, smart, and, yes, a bitch—but Tina Fey said it best, bitch is the new black!When Helena Andrews heard this declaration on Saturday Night Live, her first reaction wa…	OL15190830W
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Hunter S. Thompson	Maverick author Hunter S. Thompson introduced the world to "gonzo journalism" with this cult classic that shot back up the best seller lists after Thompson's suicide in 2005. No book ever written has…	OL158041W
"There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me	Eva Gabrielsson	Here is the real inside story—not the one about the Stieg Larsson phenomenon, but rather the love story of a man and a woman whose lives came to be guided by politics and love, coffee and activism, w…	OL15813553W
The daring Nellie Bly	Bonnie Christensen	Introduces the life of Nellie Bly who, as a "stunt reporter" for the New York World newspaper in the late 1800s, championed women's rights and traveled around the world faster than anyone ever had.	OL15835646W
Naked on the page	Jane Ganahl	Jane Ganahl is one of millions of single people out there looking for love at midlife, and she's (more or less) happy (damn it!)Jane Ganahl is forty-nine, single, and loving it—mostly. In Naked on th…	OL15844230W
When a crocodile eats the sun	Peter Godwin	After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on h…	OL16027174W
The sound of no hands clapping	Toby Young	The author describes his attempts to write a film script for a big Hollywood producer, his adjustment to married life and fatherhood, and some of his dubious journalistic assignments.	OL16027590W
I Have Seen the Future	Peter Hartshorn	At the dawn of the twentieth century, Lincoln Steffens, an internationally known and respected political insider, went rogue to work for McClure's Magazine. Credited as the proverbial father of muckr…	OL16097452W
House of stone	Anthony Shadid	"In 2006, Shadid, an Arab-American raised in Oklahoma, was covering Israel's attack on Lebanon when he heard that an Israeli rocket had crashed into the house his great-grandfather built, his family'…	OL16176084W
Bitch is the new black	Helena Andrews	Meet Helena Andrews. Sassy, single, smart, and yes, a bitch. After watching a skit on Saturday Night Live, she was at first offended, then came to realize that being a bitch is sometimes the best way…	OL16643026W
Beware of limbo dancers	Roy Reed	"This witty, wide-ranging memoir from Roy Reed--a native Arkansan who became a reporter for the New York Times--begins with tales of the writer's formative years growing up in Arkansas and the start …	OL16695023W
Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson	When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opport…	OL17779408W
Until I say good-bye	Susan Spencer-Wendel	A moving and inspirational memoir by celebrated journalist Susan Spencer-Wendel who makes the most of her final days after discovering she has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). After journalist S…	OL17875576W
The last pirate	Tony Dokoupil	"NBC News"senior writer Dokoupil offers a gripping examination of his longtime marijuana-dealing father, as well as a researched look at the evolution of American narcotics laws. In the early 1970s, …	OL17896075W
Step out on nothing	Byron Pitts	The author outlines the disadvantages he overcame in the pursuit of his career, from his abandonment by his father in childhood and tough inner-city upbringing to his speech impediment and functional…	OL18654150W
Fire Shut Up in My Bones	Charles M. Blow	Charles M. Blow’s mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their segregated Louisiana town, where slavery's leg…	OL19354307W
The spy who loved us	Thomas A. Bass	Time" correspondent, Communist spy: the haunting portrait of a double life, during and after the Vietnam war.	OL1969802W
Testament of friendship	Vera Brittain	In her famous volume of autobiography, Testament of Youth, now an acclaimed BBC/PBS television serial, Vera Brittain passionately recorded the agonizing years of the First World War, lamenting the …	OL1971471W