books about: dispatches

books about: dispatches

books:

Dispatches

Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

Anderson Cooper

Harper Paperbacks, 2007

Dispatches from the Edge
I loved this book. He is a wonderful journalist. I recommend this book to anyone that loves world news and travel all in one.

Highway to Hell: Dispatches from a Mercenary in Iraq

John Geddes

Broadway, 2008

iraq guns for hire
I Tried to get this book for at least a year and wasnt dissapointed. Well written gunns for hire, feel like your there , rideing in the seat with the gun pointing at the door!!

Dispatches

Michael Herr

Vintage, 1991

Still a terrific book about wartime and journalism
I just read this book for the first time since I was in college and it still is one of the best pieces of work on the hard job of covering a war from behind the lens of a camera. Herr always threw himself into the middle of things and had little patience for people who ...

Winging It: Dispatches from an (Almost) Empty Nest
Catherine Goldhammer

Hudson Street Press, 2008

For every woman on the verge of becoming an empty nester, a wry, insightful chronicle of rediscovering oneself at midlife . In her critically acclaimed first book, Still Life with Chickens , Catherine Goldhammer wrote of the six baby chicks that helped to pull her and her daughter forward, out of one life and into another--leaving the chaos of ...

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

Tony Horwitz

Vintage, 1999

Fun, fair & worth every penny
As will be the case with all my reviews, I'm going to record my reaction to the book, not summarize it. If you want to know what the book is all about, read a few of the longer reviews (which, at the time of this writing, numbered about 250.) Or better yet, buy it; ...

Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire

Matt Taibbi

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2007

The doctor is in.
As a longtime fan of Hunter S. Thompson's political reporting and social commentary I was first exposed to Matt Taibbi when i learned that he had inherited the very same job that the good Dr. HST held at the Foriegn Affairs Desk at Rolling Stone magazine. Pretty bold ...

Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate

Naomi Klein

Picador, 2002

Real democracy is always demanded, never granted
This book contains superb comments on strategies, policies and mass demonstrations against the actual way of the world. It poses the right questions (who holds power? who exercises it? who disguises it?) and the right answers (people before profits). The way of the ...

Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

Joe Bageant

Three Rivers Press, 2008

Prophetic Insight into the Demise of the Middle Class
Not since The Onion's devastatinginly accurate prediction through satire of the future course of the newly selected Bush Administration in January of 2001 have I read a spot-on prophecy which is unfolding before my eyes. Over a year ago Bageant predicted the current ...

The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier

Tony Jones

Jossey-Bass, 2008

An Onramp to the Emergent Conversation
For anyone who ever asks me what Emergent is all about, I simply point to The New Christians and say, "read this." Fusing the clean style of a journalist, the wisdom of a scholar and the wit of a guy who is immersed in the conversation, Tony Jones has written a timely ...

The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples
Shirley Hazzard, Francis Steegmuller

University Of Chicago Press, 2008

Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. Battered by World War II, Naples would remain for decades one of the most violent and impoverished places in Italy, but in its passion, vivacity, and beauty, the ...

Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion

Robert Siegel, Onion Staff, ...

Three Rivers Press, 2001

The Onion is GREAT reading!
What a great price for hours of humorous reading! Funny funny funny!

Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America

Ig Publishing, 2008

Clarkson has hit a single which could be turned into a home run if the left had any balls
Fred Clarkson has been active in supporting liberal issues apparently for most of his life. In this group of essays he is aiming at inspiring others on our side of the political fence to get off our arses and play ball. Where are the ministerial lions of old who used ...

Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm

Jon Katz

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008

Exceptional Book!
This is the second book I have read by Katz. His connection with animals and his insight and understanding of their lives makes remarkable reading material. Katz is a gifted writer with the talented ability to clearly express his stories. I am a dog lover (own three ...

Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South

Roy Jr Blount

Knopf, 2007

Yee-haw! (or words to that effect)
Besides being a brilliant specimen of that endangered species, The White Southern Liberal, Blount is about as funny as any humanoid on the planet. "Long Time Leaving," an anthology of some of his occasional pieces, proves a little repetitious at points (how many times ...

The Accidental Theorist: And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science

Paul R. Krugman

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1998

Excellent! Definitely a classic!
This book is essentially a collection of Krugman's short articles from various sources in 1996 and 1997. I read some of them online after the 97 Asian Crisis. Today is 24th Oct 2002. What, and simply all, he said are still true today. He's a genius and really deserves ...