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" ... Distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. The authors address such ongoing concerns as the conflict between narrative flair and accurate reporting, the legacy of New Journalism, the need for reporters to question their political assumptions, the limitations of participatory journalism, and the temptation to substitute 'truthiness' for hard, challenging fact. Second read embodies the diversity and dynamism of contemporary nonfiction...
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Among New Journalists of the 1960s-1970s, Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion approached their subjects by placing themselves in the center of their narratives as protagonists and by openly acknowledging their subjective impressions of the events they reported. Unlike journalists who adopted the conventions of detachment and objectivity, these New Journalists employed their subjective, literary styles to construct their...
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This study explores Hemingway's newspaper and magazine journalism, his introductions and prefaces to books by others, his program notes on painting and sculpture exhibitions, and his statements in self-edited interviews. In doing so, it throws a new, oblique light on what has usually been regarded as his major work--his short stories and novels. Originally published in 1968.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest...
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Contains excerpts from the writings of Ida Mae Tarbell -- Lincoln Steffens -- Upton Sinclair -- Margaret Sanger -- George Seldes -- John Steinbeck -- J. William Fulbright -- Rachel Carson -- I.F. Stone -- Edward R. Murrow -- Jessica Mitford -- Betty Friedan -- Malcolm X -- Michael Harrington -- Paul Brodeur -- Paul Ehrlich -- Ralph Nader -- Seymour Hersh -- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein -- Frances Moore Lappé.

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