num_pages: 560
description: This fascinating compilation of the journalist's art unites the reporter's magnificent eye for detail with the novelist's gift for storytelling. Featuring eyewitness accounts of war and social revolution, profiles of sports heroes and politicians, and eye-opening investigations into both the mundane and the eccentric details of life, it includes: Includes:Preface by Ben YagodaMaking Facts Dance by Kevin Kerranefrom The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild by Daniel Defoefrom The Life of Samuel Johnson by James BoswellWatercress Girl by Henry MayhewThe Great Tasmania's Cargo by Charles Dickensfrom Specimen Days by Walt Whitmanfrom If Christ Came to Chicago by W. T. SteadWhen Man Falls, a Crown Gathers by Stephen CraneAn Experiment in Misery by Stephen CraneThe Death of Rodriguez by Richard Harding DavisCan't Get Their Minds Ashore by Abraham CahanPillelu, Pillelu! by Abraham Cahanfrom The People of the Abyss by Jack LondonDrift by Morris Markeyfrom Ninety Times Guilty by Hickman PowellJuke Joint by Walter Bernsteinfrom Hiroshima by John HerseyThe Day of the Fight by W. C. Heinzfrom "Portrait of Hemingway" by Lillian RossTwo Generals by Norman LewisThe Silent Season of a Hero by Gay Talesefrom In Cold Blood by Truman Capolefrom The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfefrom Alive by Piers Paul Readfrom House by Tracy Kidderfrom Brothers by Sylvester Monroe and Peter GoldmanSo ... We Meet at Last, Mr. Bond by Bob GreeneShadow of a Nation by Gary Smithfrom What It Takes by Richard Ben CramerThe Spike by George Orwellfrom "The Bronx Slave Market" by Marvel Cookefrom The Earl of Louisiana by A. J. LieblingThe Fight to Live by Al Stumpfrom The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailerfrom "The Scum Also Rises" by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Last Secrets of Skull and Bones by Ron Rosenbaumfrom Coyotes by Ted Conoverfrom "The Snap Revolution" by James FentonTiananmen Square by John Simpsonfrom Among the Thugs by Bill Bufordfrom Whoredom in Kimmage by Rosemary Mahoneyfrom "Harlem on My Mind" by Lawrence Otis Grahamfrom "Snake Handling and Redemption" by Dennis CovingtonThe Pig by Ben HechtJapanese Earthquake by Ernest Hemingwayfrom Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James AgeeThe Third Winter by Martha GellhornMarrakech by George OrwellLady Olga by Joseph Mitchellfrom Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca Westfrom Once There Was a War by John SteinbeckLethal Lightning by Jimmy CannonIt's an Honor by Jimmy BreslinThe Girl of the Year by Tom WolfeLos Angeles Notebook by Joan Didionfrom The Pine Barrens by John Mcpheefrom Dispatches by Michael Herrfrom Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuscinskifrom Homicide by David Simonfrom Boys in Zinc by Svetlana AlexiyevichHoliday Pageant: The Importance of Being Bluebell by Michael Winerip
language: English
title: The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
titlecomplete: The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
genres: History, Writing, School, Reference, Anthologies, Journalism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 282
publisher: Scribner