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1) Suppression, deception, snobbery, and bias: why the press gets so much wrong--and just doesn't care
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"An examination of why American journalists are out-of-touch with the rest of society"--
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This is the story of working class hero Southern demagogue Willie Stark--rising from the mud of the back country--and his long climb to the top, followed by his longer drop to the bottom. Abetted by newspaper reporter Jack Burden, who becomes his chronicler, Stark's career begins with running for county treasurer and losing. Through law school, private practice, and finally as people's advocate against corruption, he moves up the political ladder....
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"In this one-step-ahead-of-the-headlines thriller, a reporter races to uncover a conspiracy when he learns that the post-Trump president elected to heal the nation has more sinister plans. In a post-Trump world, a relatively unknown candidate, Ian Wrightman, is elected president to heal a nation frayed by years of extreme partisanship. When a series of coordinated terrorist attacks rock the United States, Wrightman begins to take more and more executive...
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2021.
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A political thriller about sexual misconduct in the #MeToo era, one
victim's battle to survive and overcome trauma, and the cable news
machine that feeds off titillating scandal coverage and inflammatory
confrontation, Final Table draws upon Dan Schorr's firsthand
experience as a New York sex crimes prosecutor and sexual misconduct
investigator to tackle the worlds of political and media dysfunction.
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"In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East. Here he charts the period from the recapture of Mosul in 2017 to Turkey's attack on Kurdish territory in November 2019, and recounts the new phase in the wars of disintegration that have plagued the region. The ground battle with the caliphate is perhaps over, but was this the end of the conflict that has scarred these...
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