Newspapers Books

"Comic Strip Century" is a classic that is now pretty expensive on the secondhand book market. This reprint of that two-volume book is on terriffic paper with many Sunday strips appearing in color. You can spend weeks poring over this book. If you're looking to blow $20 on comics, this is the way to go because of the incredible value here -- nearly 500 oversize pages of primo classic material! The only thing more classic is the Smithsonian Book of Comics, also very out of print but not hard to find online for cheap.

When you're done with that, you can get busy with some more recent comic reprint projects, such as WALT & SKEEZIX, SO MANY SPLENDID SUNDAYS, POPEYE, PEANUTS, LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE, etc etc.

A small book of uniquely great content. Short texts and plenty of useful illustrations, no hype -
so finally here is book that was really designed for practicing journalists. This is a must for those print editors and journalists who want to keep their job in the next few years. Like me.

Small pamphlet but very realist. Every detail was entertaining, the stories, the diner adds, and the personal adds. Wish there was a little more, but a great addition to any collection non the less.

I found this book extremely helpful while writing my report on earthquakes. Being one of the survivors of this earthquake, I found this book to be something to remember it by. It's great to flip through the pages and look at the pictures and say, "Hey! I know where that is!" I recommend this book to anyone interested in the subject.

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There are a number of reference guides to African-American newspapers and peridocials. From the first known publication, _Freedom's Journal_, published in New York City starting in 1827 to the present, there have been more than 3,500 African-American newspapers and peridocials. Preserving the record of these presses is crucial. Not only did these presses serve as a protest organ, but also documented normal black life, especially as it existed under segregation and Jim Crow laws. In many cases, these papers provide the only extant record of African American life in forgotten and remote towns. Unfortunately, only a small percentage are preserved on microfilm or in other formats. The record of these periodicals is the next most important level of information. _African-American Newspapers and Periodicals_ does an excellent job of documenting these newsapers and magazines. Given the dominance of majority points of view in mainstream publications and the low number of black journalists, the African American press is an essential voice for the black community. If African Americans do not tell their story, no one will. This reference work is the best starting point for learning more about these publications.

In an age when it seems like publishing houses are being snapped up right and left, it's a delight to read interviews with noted publishers who took a chance on writers they loved, regardless of the bottom line (and even made a profit doing so - sometimes). There are nine small press publishers represented here and the interviews are quite detailed and fascinating to read. Those interviewed are Henry Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Godine, Daniel Halpern, Sam Hamill and Tree Swenson, James Laughlin, John Martin and Jonathan Williams. They represent, in no particular order, the publishing houses of City Lights, Cummingham Press, David R. Godine, Copper Canyon Press, Ecco Press, New Directions, Black Sparrow and The Jargon Society, among others.

This is a great anthology for anyone teaching (or learning) journalism or even expository writing. Many of the big names in modern journalism are represented: Rick Bragg, Mitch Albom, Patricia Raybon, Francis X. Clines, Thomas French, William Blundell, Cynthia Gorney, Diane Griego Erwin. But there is also a section of "classics," and a first-person account by Marvel Cooke of her day "undercover" as a domestic worker in 1950 is a particularly powerful piece of writing.

Who is Rupert Murdoch and why are so many people saying such nasty things about him? For one thing, his is America's new press lord. He has accumulated power and influence far beyond anything dreamed of when he inherited a modest income and a failing newspaper in Australia.

Asa Shinn Mercer: Western Promoter And Newspaperman 1839-1917 by historian Lawrence M. Woods is the impressively written and presented biography of a most remarkable surveyor, teacher, immigration promoter, editor and publisher, ship salvager, farmer, and rancher. Asa Shinn Mercer's eclectic life and contributions make for lively and engaging reading in this carefully researched and wholly enjoyable account of a life lived in the yesteryear of America.