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The Scripps School
Its Stories, People, and Legacy
Edited by Ralph Izard
Since 1924 Ohio University’s E. W. Scripps School of Journalism has been among the most important programs of its kind. This book features the recollections of alumni, faculty, friends, and students in celebration of the school’s centennial.
Players, Teams, and Stadium Ghosts
Bob Hunter on Sports
By Bob Hunter
Players, Teams, and Stadium Ghosts collects more than 130 sports columns and stories, written over three decades, to offer a smorgasbord of nostalgia and discovery—including the origin stories of some of today’s biggest names in sports—for fans in Ohio and beyond.
A Saturnalia of Bunk
Selections from The Free Lance, 1911–1915
By H. L. Mencken
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Edited by S. T. Joshi
H. L. Mencken’s reputation as a journalist and cultural critic of the twentieth century has endured well into the twenty-first. His early contributions as a writer, however, are not very well known. He began his journalistic career as early as 1899 and in 1910 cofounded the Baltimore Evening Sun.
Postcards from Stanland
Journeys in Central Asia
By David H. Mould
Central Asia has long stood at the crossroads of history. It was the staging ground for the armies of the Mongol Empire, for the nineteenth-century struggle between the Russian and British empires, and for the NATO campaign in Afghanistan. Today, multinationals and nations compete for the oil and gas reserves of the Caspian Sea and for control of the pipelines. Yet “Stanland” is still, to many, a terra incognita, a geographical blank.Beginning
Immigration, Diversity, and Broadcasting in the United States 1990—2001
By Vibert C. Cambridge
The last decade of the twentieth century brought a maturing of the new racial and ethnic communities in the United States and the emergence of diversity and multiculturalism as dominant fields of discourse in legal, educational, and cultural contexts.
Evidence of My Existence
By Jim Lo Scalzo
From a leper colony in India to an American research station on the Antarctic Peninsula, from the back rooms of the White House to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, Evidence of My Existence tells a unique and riveting story of seventeen years spent racing from one photo assignment to the next. It is also a story of photojournalism and theconsequences of obsessive wanderlust.When the book opens, Jim Lo Scalzo is a blur to his wife, her remarkable tolerance wearing thin.
DeVoto’s West
History, Conservation, and the Public Good
By Bernard DeVoto
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Edited by Edward K. Muller
Social commentator and preeminent western historian Bernard DeVoto vigorously defended public lands in the West against commercial interests. By the time of his death in 1955, DeVoto had published criticism, history, and fiction. He had won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes. But his most passionate writing—at once incisive and eloquent—advocated conservation of America’s prairies, rangeland, forests, mountains, canyons, and deserts.DeVoto’s
Immigration, Diversity, and Broadcasting in the United States 1990—2001
By Vibert C. Cambridge
The last decade of the twentieth century brought a maturing of the new racial and ethnic communities in the United States and the emergence of diversity and multiculturalism as dominant fields of discourse in legal, educational, and cultural contexts.
Mencken’s America
H. L. Mencken
Edited by S. T. Joshi
Long famous as a political, social, and cultural gadfly, journalist and essayist H. L. Mencken was unafraid to speak his mind on controversial topics and to express his views in a deliberately provocative manner.Mencken was prolific; much of his best work lies buried in the newspapers and magazines in which it originally appeared. Mencken’s America is a sampling of this uncollected work, arranged to present the wide-ranging treatise on American culture that Mencken himself never wrote.
John Reed and the Writing of Revolution
By Daniel W. Lehman
John Reed (1887-1920) is best known as the author of Ten Days That Shook the World and as champion of the communist movement in the United States. Still, Reed remains a writer almost systematically ignored by the literary critical establishment, even if alternately vilified and lionized by historians and by films like Warren Beatty’s Reds.John
H. L. Mencken on American Literature
By H. L. Mencken
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Edited by S. T. Joshi
H. L. Mencken was one of the leading literary, social, and cultural critics of the 1910s, ’20s, and ’30s. However, very few of his literary reviews have been reprinted in any form prior to their appearance in this volume.H. L. Mencken on American Literature presents a comprehensive selection of Mencken’s reviews of the leading American writers of his time.
Beyond the Barricades
Nicaragua and the Struggle for the Sandinista Press, 1979–1998
By Adam Jones
Throughout the 1980s, Barricada, the official daily newspaper of the ruling Sandinista Front, played the standard role of a party organ, seeking the mobilize the Nicaraguan public to support the revolutionary agenda. Beyond the Barricades, however, reveals a story that is both more intriguing and much more complex.
South Africa’s Resistance Press
Alternative Voices in the Last Generation under Apartheid
Edited by Les Switzer and Mohamed Adhikari
South Africa’s Resistance Press is a collection of essays celebrating the contributions of scores of newspapers, newsletters, and magazines that confronted the state in the generation after 1960. These publications contributed in no small measure to reviving a mass movement inside South Africa that would finally bring an end to apartheid.
Nightmare
The Underside of the Nixon Years
By J. Anthony Lukas
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Foreword by Joan Hoff
In July 1973, for the first time in its history, the New York Times Magazine devoted a full issue to a single article: Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist J. Anthony Lukas’s account of the Watergate story to date. Six months later, a second installment ran in another full issue. Later the Times asked him to write a third issue, on the impeachment, which never appeared because of Nixon’s intervening resignation.
Gender Violence and the Press
The St. Kizito Story
By H. Leslie Steeves
On the night of Saturday, July 13, 1991, a mob of male students at the St. Kizito Mixed Secondary School in Meru, Kenya, attacked their female classmates in a dormitory. Nineteen schoolgirls were killed in the melee and more than 70 were raped or gang raped.The explanations in the press for the attack included a rebellion by male students over administrative mismanagement, academic stress, cultural norms for the Meru ethnic group, and victim characteristics (as assumed in rape myths).