num_pages: 400
description: A career-spanning selection of the legendary reporter David Carrs writing for the New York Times Washington City Paper New York Magazine the Atlantic and more. Throughout his 25-year journalistic career David Carr was noted for his sharp and fearless observations his uncanny sense of fairness and justice and his remarkable compassion and wit. His writing was informed both by his own hardships as an addict and his intense love of the journalists craft. His rangefrom media politics to national politics from rock n roll celebrities to the unknown civil servants who make our daily lives functionwas broad and often timeless. Whether he was breaking exclusives about Amazon or mourning Philip Seymour Hoffmans death or taking aim at editors who valued political trivia over substance Carrs voice and concerns remain enormously influential and relevant. In these hundred or so articles from a range of publications we read his stories with fresh eyes. Edited by his widow Jill Rooney Carr and with an introduction written by one of the many journalists David Carr mentored and promoted Ta-Nehisi Coates Final Draft is a singular event in the world of writing news an art increasingly endangered in these troubled times. 
language: English
title: Final Draft: The Collected Work of David Carr
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt