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CBS reporter Morley Safer brought Vietnam into our living rooms. Twenty-five years later, Safer returns to Vietnam for a compelling look back at the war and the legacy it left in that fateful land. Vivid and powerfully written, Flashbacks is Morley Safer's unique exploration of Vietnam, past and present. It is a seasoned newsman's moving portrait of a time and place none of us can forget.
Journalist Kirk arrived in Vietnam in 1965 and covered the war for The Washington Star, the Chicago Tribune and other American periodicals. Here are 15 stories, most reprinted, from both that period and from visits during the decades after the war. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
In August and September of 1988, Jerry Fielder, the Yousuf Karsh's long-time studio assistant and cureetly director of the Karsh Estate, sat down with the master photographer and taped over nine hours of recollections of many portrait sessions Karsh had experienced in his great career
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
A Pulitzer Prize winner’s in-depth look at four media-business giants: CBS-TV, Time magazine, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. In this fascinating New York Times bestseller, the author of The Best and the Brightest, The Fifties, and other acclaimed histories turns his investigative eye to the rise of the American media in the twentieth century. Focusing on the successes and failures of CBS Television, Time magazine, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, David Halberstam paints a portrait of the era when large, powerful mainstream media sources emerged as a force, showing how they shifted from simply reporting the news to becoming a part of it. By examining landmark...
Ever since the 1950s, when television became ascendent in American popular culture, it has become commonplace to bemoan its "bad" effects. Little or nothing, however, has been said about its "good" effects. With this observation, Henry Perkinson introduces his provocative and original analysis of television and culture. Rejecting the determinism inherent in most studies of the effects of television ("we are what we watch"), he insists that it is people that actively change culture, media having no agency to do so. Nevertheless, he argues that television did facilitate the changes we have made in our culture over the past thirty years. In the new epilogue, Henry Perkinson discusses the current state of television and the changes that have occurred in the first half of this decade. He examines how reporters have become not just messengers of information but the message itself. They become the focus of stories as they search for the scandalous side of all issues and persons. Perkinson also shows how America continues to be driven by moralist politics, launched and sustained by television.