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The Sweet Science And Other Writings

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A. J. Liebling
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Book, Library of America, 2009
Description
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris (1962) is a richly evocative memoir of Liebling?s introduction to Paris and its food and wine as a student in the late 1920s. The Press (1964) brings together the best of Liebling?s influential and insightful ?Wayward Press? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Long, Earl Kemp, · 1895-1960 · McDonald, James A., · 1874- · Amusements · New York (State) · New York · Boxing · History · Gastronomy · Newspaper publishing · United States · Press · Louisiana · Politics and government · 1951- · Paris (France) · Description and travel · Liebling, A. J. 1904-1963 · Hamill, Pete, 1935- · Liebling, A. J. 1904-1963
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3523.I278 A6 2009 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3523.I278 A6 2009	AVAILABLE

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William Randolph Hearst : Final Edition, 1911-1951

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Ben Procter
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Book, Oxford University Press, 2007
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Drawing on previously unavailable letters and manuscripts, and quoting generously from Hearst’s own editorials, Procter covers all aspects of Hearst’s career: his journalistic innovations, his impassioned patriotism, his fierce belief in “Government by Newspaper,” his frustrated political aspirations, profligate spending and voracious art collecting, the building of his castle at San Simeon, and his tumultuous Hollywood years. The book offers new insight into Hearst’s bitter and highly public quarrels with Al Smith (who referred to Hearst papers as “Mudgutter Gazettes”) and FDR (whose New Deal Hearst dubbed the “Raw Deal”); (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Hearst, William Randolph, · 1863-1951 · Biography · Newspapers · Ownership · Publishers and publishing · United States · Newspaper publishing · History · 19th century · 20th century · Procter, Ben H
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z473.H4 P762 2007 AVAILABLE

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The Postwar Decline Of American Newspapers, 1945-1965 : The History Of American Journalism

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David R. Davies
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Book, Praeger, 2006
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- Table of contents only
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On the surface, the American newspaper industry appears to have changed little from 1945 to 1965, remaining both healthy and prosperous. Each of the changes was significant of its own accord, and the range of challenges throughout the period combined to transform newspapers and the nation they served by 1965. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Press · United States · History · 20th century · Newspaper publishing · Journalism · Davies, David R. 1957-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PN4867 .D38 2006 AVAILABLE

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Citizen Kane

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an RKO Radio Picture ; a Mercury production by Orson Welles ; original screen play, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles ; director-producer, Orson Welles
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Video, Warner Home Video, 2001
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Citizen Kane (Motion picture) · Publishers and publishing · United States · Biography · Drama · Newspaper publishing · History · Feature films · Video recordings for the hearing impaired · Documentary television programs · LAMSON LIBRARY DVD · Welles, Orson, 1915-1985 · Mankiewicz, Herman J. 1897-1953 · Cotten, Joseph, 1905- · Comingore, Dorothy, 1913-1971 · Moorehead, Agnes, 1906-1974 · Sloane, Everett, 1909-1965 · Herrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975 · Lennon, Thomas · Epstein, Michael · Cramer, Richard Ben · RKO Radio Pictures, inc · Mercury Productions · WGBH Educational Foundation · Warner Home Video (Firm)
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MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN) PN1997 .C5 2001 AVAILABLE

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MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN)	PN1997 .C5 2001	AVAILABLE

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Books On The Frontier : Print Culture In The American West, 1763-1875

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by Richard W. Clement
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Book, Library of Congress, 2003
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From the end of the French and Indian War through the nineteenth century, the pioneers of the American book trade moved west, motivated, to varying degrees, by bibliophilia, enterprise, and a spirit of adventure. Through their own lively anecdotes and recollections, Richard Clement offers a history of book publishing and trade on the American frontier in Lexington, Louisville, and St Louis, where Joseph Charless opens various bookstores and print shops. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Book industries and trade · United States · History · West (U.S.) · Printing · Books and reading · Newspaper publishing · Frontier and pioneer life · Territorial expansion · Clement, Richard W., 1951-
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z473 .C59 2003 AVAILABLE

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The Chief : The Life Of William Randolph Hearst

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David Nasaw
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Book, Houghton Mifflin, 2000
Description
David Nasaw’s magnificent, definitive biography of William Randolph Hearst is based on newly released private and business papers and interviews. Recently discovered correspondence with the architect of Hearst’s world-famous estate, San Simeon, is augmented by taped interviews with the people who worked there and witnessed Hearst’s extravagant entertaining, shedding light on the private life of a very public man. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Hearst, William Randolph, · 1863-1951 · Publishers and publishing · United States · Biography · Newspaper publishing · History · 19th century · 20th century · Nasaw, David
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z473.H4 N37 2000 AVAILABLE

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The Golden Age : A Novel

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Gore Vidal
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Book, 1st ed, Doubleday, 2000
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The Golden Age is the concluding volume in Gore Vidal’s celebrated and bestselling Narratives of Empire series-a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States’ entry into World War Two to the end of the Korean War. The Golden Age is Vidal’s crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War Two and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Newspaper publishing · Fiction · Women publishers · Mothers and sons · United States · History · 1933-1945 · 1945-1953 · Washington (D.C.) · New York (N.Y.) · Vidal, Gore, 1925-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3543.I26 G65 2000 AVAILABLE

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Personal History

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Katharine Graham
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Book, 1st ed, A.A. Knopf, 1997
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This destruction of her confidence and happiness is a drama in itself, followed by the even more intense drama of her new life as the head of a great newspaper and a great company, a famous (and even feared) woman in her own right. Graham’s book is populated with a cast of fascinating characters, from fifty years of presidents (and their wives), to Steichen, Brancusi, Felix Frankfurter, Warren Buffett (her great advisor and protector), Robert McNamara, George Schultz (her regular tennis partner), and, of course, the great names from the Post: Woodward, Bernstein, and Graham’s editor/partner, Ben Bradlee. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Graham, Katharine, · 1917-2001 · Washington post · Newspaper publishing · Washington (D.C.) · History · 20th century · Publishers and publishing · United States · Biography · Graham, Katharine, 1917-2001
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z473 .G696 1997 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Z473 .G696 1997	AVAILABLE

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Newhouse : All The Glitter, Power & Glory Of America’s Richest Media Empire & The Secretive Man Behind It

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Thomas Maier
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Book, Johnson Books, 1997
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With a supporting cast of well-known literary names around him, Newhouse is the king of New York?s cultural world today?as owner of Random House, the nation?s largest book publishing empire; He tells the personal story of how “Si” Newhouse emerged from the shadow of his demanding father to expand the family fortune further than anyone ever imagined, with his mercurial “off-with-their-heads” management style. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Newhouse, Samuel I · Publishers and publishing · United States · Biography · Newspaper publishing · History · 20th century · American newspapers · Maier, Thomas, 1956-
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z473.N47 M35 1997 AVAILABLE

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The Astonishing Mr. Scripps : The Turbulent Life Of America’s Penny Press Lord

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Vance H. Trimble
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Book, 1st ed, Iowa State University Press, 1992
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Scripps, E. W. · (Edward Willis), · 1854-1926 · Newspaper publishing · United States · History · 19th century · 20th century · Publishers and publishing · Biography · Journalists · Trimble, Vance H
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z473.S394 T74 1992 AVAILABLE

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The Hearsts : An American Dynasty

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Judith Robinson
Publication Details
Book, University of Delaware Press, 1991
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Hearst, William Randolph, · 1863-1951 · Family · Hearst family · Publishers and publishing · United States · Biography · Newspaper publishing · History · Robinson, Judith, 1939-
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z473.H4 R62 1991 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Z473.H4 R62 1991	AVAILABLE

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Newspapers, A Reference Guide

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Richard A. Schwarzlose
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Book, Greenwood Press, 1987
Description
“Newspapers provides a historical context for the books discussed in its readable essays and will be invaluable for anyone researching the history or role of newspapers in American life.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American newspapers · History · Bibliography · Newspaper publishing · United States · Schwarzlose, Richard Allen
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REFERENCE (MAIN) PN4855 .S38 1987 AVAILABLE

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REFERENCE (MAIN)	PN4855 .S38 1987	AVAILABLE

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Knight : A Publisher In The Tumultuous Century

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Charles Whited
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Dutton, 1988
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Knight, John Shively, · 1894-1981 · Publishers and publishing · United States · Biography · Newspaper publishing · History · 20th century · Whited, Charles
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z473.K68 W48 1988 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Z473.K68 W48 1988	AVAILABLE

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Pulitzer Publishing Company : Newspapers And Broadcasting In The Public Interest

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Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. [and] Michael E. Pulitzer
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Book, Newcomen Society of the United States, 1988
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Pulitzer Publishing Company · History · Newspaper publishing · United States · Radio broadcasting · Television broadcasting · Publishers and publishing · Pulitzer, Joseph, 1913- · Pulitzer, Michael E · Newcomen Society of the United States
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(UPPER LEVEL) PN4734 .P84 1989 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PN4734 .P84 1989	AVAILABLE

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Citizen Hearst, A Biography Of William Randolph Hearst

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Book, Scribner, 1961
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Hearst, William Randolph, · 1863-1951 · Publishers and publishing · United States · Biography · Newspaper publishing · History · Swanberg, W. A., 1907-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PN4874.H4 S83 AVAILABLE

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