Resultados para "man" en Periodistas, redactores y editores

One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. Yet by the age of fifteen, McCall was packing a gun and embarking on a criminal career that five years later would land him in prison for armed robbery.

If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings—from the New York Post, Fox News, and most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few—are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like...

Jon Reiner was happily married with two children, living on Manhattan's Upper West Side, when a near-fatal medical crisis that resulted in emergency surgery threatened to take his life. He was sentenced to months of intravenous feeding that required him to abstain from eating anything, in order to give his digestive tract a rest.

Siamo a Ostia, nel 2013, e tra gli abitanti di quei palazzi c'è anche Federica Angeli, cronista di nera per le pagine romane di La Repubblica, che in quella periferia è nata e cresciuta. Da tempo si occupa dei clan locali e ha subìto gravi minacce. Sa quindi come è fatta la paura, ma crede che l'altra faccia della paura sia il coraggio. Se i vicini rientrano obbedienti al comando del boss, lei decide di denunciare ciò che ha visto. Dal giorno dopo la sua vita è stravolta.

"Extraños en el paraíso nos cuenta la verdadera historia de la Movida. Ella, Caro H, fue una de las fotógrafas referentes de un movimiento que todavía despierta el interés de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Él, periodista en un diario nacional...

"Extraños en el paraíso nos cuenta la verdadera historia de la Movida. Ella, Caro H, fue una de las fotógrafas referentes de un movimiento que todavía despierta el interés de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Él, periodista en un diario nacional...

"Extraños en el paraíso nos cuenta la verdadera historia de la Movida. Ella, Caro H, fue una de las fotógrafas referentes de un movimiento que todavía despierta el interés de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Él, periodista en un diario nacional...

"Extraños en el paraíso nos cuenta la verdadera historia de la Movida. Ella, Caro H, fue una de las fotógrafas referentes de un movimiento que todavía despierta el interés de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Él, periodista en un diario nacional...

"Extraños en el paraíso nos cuenta la verdadera historia de la Movida. Ella, Caro H, fue una de las fotógrafas referentes de un movimiento que todavía despierta el interés de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Él, periodista en un diario nacional...

"Extraños en el paraíso nos cuenta la verdadera historia de la Movida. Ella, Caro H, fue una de las fotógrafas referentes de un movimiento que todavía despierta el interés de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Él, periodista en un diario nacional...

In 1948 most White people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for the 10 million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a famous White journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and lived as a Black man in the Jim Crow South. Escorted through the South's parallel Black society by John Wesley Dobbs, a historic Black civil rights pioneer from Atlanta, Sprigle met with sharecroppers, local Black leaders, and families of lynching victims.

This fascinating and inspiring biography of John Haynes - the man behind Haynes manuals - looks ‘under the bonnet’ at his extraordinary life, and his legacy to the motoring world. This is the story of how one man’s vision and enthusiasm gave a small enterprise in rural Somerset a global footprint.  

The first biography in over thirty years of Condé Nast, the pioneering publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair and main rival to media magnate William Randolph Hearst. Written with the cooperation of his family on both sides of the Atlantic and a dedicated team at Condé Nast Publications, critically acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the life of an extraordinary American success story. 

Early in his career, A.J. Jacobs put his Ivy League education to work at Entertainment Weekly. He emerged five years later knowing which stars have fake boobs, which stars have toupees, which have both, and not much else. This realization led Jacobs on a life-changing quest: to read the entire contents of the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 33,000 pages, all 44 million words.

Controversial and outspoken, hated and admired, Larry Flynt was one of the most polarizing figures of the 20th century. The life of the infamous publisher needs no exaggeration to make it one of the most interesting stories of our time. The found of Hustler magazine, Flynt was an ardent advocate of First Amendment rights and a man whose landmark Supreme Court cases are studied by law students across the country.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who...

An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wildlife photographer, and bon vivant enthralled and inspired both because of his work and his...

By founding Penguin books and popularizing the paperback, Allen Lane not only changed publishing in Britain, he was also at the forefront of a social and cultural revolution that saw the millions of people given access to what had previously been the preserve of a wealthy few. In Penguin Special, Jeremy Lewis brings this extraordinary era brilliantly to life, recounting how Allen Lane came to launch his Penguins for the price of a packet of cigarettes.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE From two-time National Magazine Award winner Tom Junod, a searching, brilliantly stylized memoir about a charismatic, philandering father who tried to mold his son in his image, the many secrets he hid, the son’s obsessive quest to uncover...

Today, seventy-three years after his death, journalists still tell tales of Charles E. Chapin. As city editor of Pulitzeras New York Evening World, Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlesslyaand kept his paper in the center ring of the circus...