Authors:Evan Thomas, The Staff of Newsweek, Staff of Newswee
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Keywords: future, won, bush, election
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-01-04
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1586482939
ISBN-13: 9781586482930

An extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the 2004 presidential election reported by Newsweek’s premier political reporters, including bestselling biographer Evan Thomas. A full year before the presidential election, four Newsweek reporters are detached from the magazine to work fulltime on getting inside the campaigns of the Republican and Democratic candidates. Because Newsweek promises not to reveal any information until after the votes are cast, the reporters receive highly unusual access. They travel with the candidates, live at their headquarters, befriend their staffs. They blend

Authors:Newsweek Education Program, Kapla,
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Keywords: guide, students, school, writing, essay
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-10-31
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1419552155
ISBN-13: 9781419552151

Essay Writing for High School Students: A Step-by-Step Guide is an indispensable guide to help students’ words leap off the page. Tailored specifically to high school students, it includes: * Details on how to write a winning essay, whether for the college application or for a standardized test such as the SAT or ACT* Real essays that illustrate how to develop sample ideas* Advice on how to write an essay if you’re under time and space restrictions* Tips on how to write creatively and make your words come alive

Author: Herbert J. Gans
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: news, medill, time, visions, american, press, newsweek, nbc, study, what’s, cbs, evening, deciding, nightly
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2005-02-22
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0810122375
ISBN-13: 9780810122376

For ten years, Herbert J. Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and talking to the journalists who choose the national news stories that inform America about itself. Writing during the golden age of journalism, Gans included such headline events as the War on Poverty, the Vietnam War and the protests against it, urban ghetto disorders, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and Watergate. He was interested in the values, professional standards, and the external pressures that shaped journalists’ judgments.