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From Hell to Hollywood
The Incredible Journey of AP Photographer Nick Ut
2021
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This book of Nick Ut’s pictures and Hal Buell’s wonderfully spare prose about Nick’s life is so much more than a long-deserved tribute to Ut. It is a recognition of the courage, bravery and professionalism of all the photographers whose work in Vietnam helped us to understand the awful cost of war. -- Bob Schieffer, CBS News“From Hell to Hollywood” is the story of two journeys.One journey is the lifelong adventure of AP photographer Nick Ut, a teen...
This Just In
What I Couldn't Tell You on TV
2004
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Bob Schieffer started his reporting career in Texas when he was barely old enough to buy a beer, joined CBS News in 1969, and became one of the few correspondents ever to have covered all four major Washington beats: the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Capitol Hill. Over the past four decades, he's seen it all-and now he's sharing the after-hours tales only his colleagues know.
Overload
Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News
2017
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From the explosion of fake news to the challenges of the 24 hour news cycle, legendary journalist Bob Schieffer examines political journalism today and those who practice it. Based on interviews with over 40 media leaders, Schieffer provides an inside look at the changing role of media and asks whether today’s citizens are more informed or just overwhelmed.
2009
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The Face the Nation commentator delivers ?a fitting companion to his career memoir, This Just In? (Texas Monthly).Bob Schieffer?s America brings together 171 of his smart, humorous, and pitch-perfect essays: from today?s hard issues to the human stories that show readers who they are; from politics and presidents and tragedy to the things that touch them, make them laugh, or record the small shifts in culture that just creep up. ...
This Just In
What I Couldn't Tell You on TV
- Narrated by
- Bob Schieffer
Unabridged
15 hours 15 min
2008
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It has been a remarkable career for Bob Schieffer, the chief Washington correspondent for CBS News. He is trusted by countless Americans to cover the stories that matter. During his extraordinary career, he has won six Emmys. In 2002 the National Press Foundation hailed him as the Broadcaster of the Year. Now the highly respected veteran newsman shares the stories he's long kept under wraps in a book The Washington Post says "is everything a memoir should be-candid, funny, and loaded with ...
- Narrated by
- Bob Schieffer
Unabridged
6 hours 23 min
2008
EN
Unbridged CDs * 6 CDs, 7 hoursWise, rueful, candid, graceful commentaries from one of journalism’s most stylish and respected writers.
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Notes from an Impeachment Summer
2012
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New York Times Bestseller: A "superb" blow-by-blow account of how Tip O'Neill and his colleagues impeached Richard Nixon after Watergate ( Chicago Tribune).Not long after burglars were caught raiding the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel, Congressman Tip O'Neill noticed that Democratic fundraising efforts for the 1972 election had stalled. Major contributors were under IRS investigation, and Republi...
In the President's Secret Service
Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
2009
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After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time.Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. Kessler portrays the dangers that agents face and how they carr...
Devil's Bargain
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising
2017
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The instant #1 New York Times bestseller.From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump—the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history.Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six years, Green spins the master narrative of the 2016 cam...
Killing Reagan
The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency
2015
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From the bestselling team of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard comes Killing Reagan, a page-turning epic account of the career of President Ronald Reagan that tells the vivid story of his rise to power--and the forces of evil that conspired to bring him down.The basis for the 2016 television movie available on streaming.Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan lay near death after a gunman's bullet came within inches of his...
Trust Me, I'm Lying
Confessions of a Media Manipulator
2012
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The cult classic that predicted the rise of fake news—revised and updated for the post-Trump, post-Gawker age.Hailed as "astonishing and disturbing" by the Financial Times and "essential reading" by TechCrunch at its original publication, former American Apparel marketing director Ryan Holiday’s first book sounded a prescient alarm about the dangers of fake news. It's all the more relevant today.Trust Me, I’m Lying was the first book to bl...
The Victory Lab
The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
2012
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The book Politico calls “Moneyball for politics” shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign—now updated with a new postscript.Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American institution, shoving aside its so-called wise men and replacing them with a radical new data-driven order. We’ve seen it in sports, and now in The Victory Lab, journalist Sasha Issenberg tells the h...











