The literature of journalism
Subtitle: text and context
By: [edited by] R. Thomas Berner.
Contributors: Berner, R. Thomas.
Publisher: Strata Pub.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: State College, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Reportage literature.; Prose literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Anthology of excerpts from eighteen works with critical commentary by the editor.
Table of contents: title: The road to Wigan Pier / George Orwell; title: Let us now praise famous men / James Agee; title: Hiroshima / John Hersey; title: Reporting / Lillian Ross; title: The story of a shipwrecked sailor / Gabriel García Márquez; title: The earl of Louisiana / A.J. Liebling; title: The autobiography of Malcolm X / Alex Haley; title: A mother in history / Jean Stafford; title: In cold blood / Truman Capote; title: Hell's Angels / Hunter Thompson; title: Slouching towards Bethlehem / Joan Didion; title: The onion field / Joseph Wambaugh; title: A welfare mother / Susan Sheehan; title: Friendly fire / C.D.B. Bryan; title: Dispatches / Michael Herr; title: The right stuff / Tom Wolfe; title: The soul of a new machine / Tracy Kidder; title: The great China earthquake / Qian Gang.