The Princeton reader
Subtitle: contemporary essays by writers and journalists at Princeton University
By: edited by John McPhee and Carol Rigolot
Contributors: Princeton University
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780691143071; 9780691143088
Subjects: American essays; Journalism; American Reportage literature
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / John McPhee; title: Aliens / Joel Achenbach; title: Baby Jessica ; History: How American Myths Are Made / Evan Thomas; title: If You Want to Humble an Empire / Nancy Gibbs; title: / Fighting for Life 50 Floors Up, with One Tool and Ingenuity; US Airways Flight 1549: Old Hands on the River Didn't Have to be Told What to Do   / Jim Dwyer; title: Anthrax / Marilyn Thompson; title: The Everyman Who Exposed Tainted Toothpaste / Walt Bogdanich; title: When the Terror Began / Alexander Wolff; title: Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America / Michael Dobbs; title: A Knock on the Door / Serge Schmemann; title: Tiananmen Massacre / Rose Tang; title: Finding Respite from Worries / Jill Abramson; title: My Father's Closet / John Seabrook; title: A Backward Glance / Elizabeth Kendall; title: Silk Parachute / John McPhee; title: The Road Block ; Burning My Father / Peter Godwin; title: A Moving Experience / Paula Span; title: The Lure of the Frozen Lake / Julia Keller; title: True Love Is Made of This ; The Greatest Penn Success Story / Michael Vitez; title: A Pit Bull Who Provided Lessons in Loyalty and Unfailing Love ; A Sign: It's Jesus, or a Lunch Bargain / Peter Applebome; title: The Two Lives of John Favors '72: A Political Activist Becomes a Monk in the Hare Krishna Movement / Melvin R. McCray; title: In Albania, a Girl Who Became a Man ; The North Korean Film Festival: No Stars, No Swang, but What a Crowd! / Barbara Demick; title: Title Inflation: How Hollywood Watches Our Wallets /; title: Bob Mondello; title: Ice Accommodations / Juliet Eilperin; title: The Renaissance of the Marais / Mitchel Levitas; title: Walking to Vermont / Christopher S. Wren; title: Between a Woman and Her Doctor: A Story about Abortion / Martha Mendoza; title: Baby's First Helmet / James V. Grimaldi; title: After Etan: The Missing Child Case That Held America Captive / Lisa Cohen; title: A Hostage Crisis Hits Latin America / Juanita Darling; title: Children Caught in the Immigration Crossfire / Kathy Kiely; title: A Father's Promise / Geraldine Moriba Meadows; title: McKinley High School / Athelia Knight / A Believing Principal Leads a Battle to Save a School Edison's Big Loss /  Dan Grech; title: Yodobashi No.6 / T. R. Reid; title: Sports: The Glue for Lost Kids / Filip Bondy; title: Curtis Williams-Victory and Ruins/ Ken Armstrong; title: Arson Science- To Their Rescue? / Emilie Lounsberry; title: Stinging Tentacles Offer Hint of Oceans' Decline / Elisabeth Rosenthal; title: Chernobyl: The Danger Persists / Felicity Barringer; title: Alaska: Oil's Groud Zero / Jeffrey Bartholet; title: Artic Rush / Craig Duff; title: The X Files / Thomas E. Weber; title: Internet Gambling / Gilbert Gaul; title: Seeking New Ways to Nurture the Capacity to Report / Charles Lewis; title: Role Model: Sarah McClendon ; Remembering a Friend: Ed Bradley Was a Gift to Journalism / Roberta Oster Sachs; title: Whose Media Are We? / Ralph J. Begleiter; title: The West and the Arab World: The Case of Media / Daoud Kuttab; title: Don't E-mail Me ; Millions of Women Weep ; The Lessons of Cain / Joel Stein; title: A View to a Kill / Charles Lane; title: Cuba: The End of the End of the Revolution / Roger Cohen; title: Guantanamo / Jane Mayer; title: The Promise ; Gaza Notebook: The Bullets in My In-Box / Ethan Bronner; title: A Gaza Diary / Chris Hedges; title: In Horses, a Personal Refuge ; Hints of Lives Are All That Remains ; Now They Execute Polite Shuffles: There's a Strange Semeness in the Stories of Baath Party Members in Iraq ; In Land of Ruin, a House of Stone Shelters Delight / Paul Salopek; title: Iraq: Transformation Bypasses the Heartland ; Hezbollah Fighter Strove to be a Martyr / Thanassis Cambanis; title: Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War / Peter Maass; title: Bosnia's Elite "Disappeared" / Roy Gutman; title: Stone Age Ways Surviving, Barely ; Oshima Journal: After 90 Years, Small Gestures of Joy for Lepers / Calvin Sims; title: Ella in Wonderland ; On Writers and Writing: D. H. Lawrence Frees the Slaves / Margo Jefferson; title: Max Perkins: Editor of Genius / A. Scott Berg; title: The Prince / Claudia Roth Pierpont; title: Diary of a Bad Year, by J. M. Coetzee ; Beowulf and Fate Meet in a Modern Poet's Lens / Richard Eder; title: John Leonard / Robert Christgau; title: Growing by Degrees: Kanye West; title: Pop Music: The Durability of Doo-Wop ; On the White Side of Crossover Dreams / Martin Gottlieb; title: Something in the Air / Marc Fisher; title: The Sonata Seminar / Alex Ross; title: Shooting War / Mark Feeney; title: A Battalion of One's Own Injured in Iraq, a Soldier Is Shattered at Home / Deborah Sontag; title: David Maraniss / Connections; title: Trevor Manuel and the Liberation of Nelson Mandela / Pippa Green; title: Jerry Brown Still Wants Your Vote / Michael Duffy; title: "I Don't Feel No Ways Tired" / Jeff Gerth; title: Fannie Lou Hamer / Kay Mills; title: The Fourth of July / Greil Marcus