The Burlington Magazine has maintained a high, international reputation for publishing authoritative writing on all aspects of art history since its foundation in 1903 by a group of distinguished scholars headed by Roger Fry, Bernard Berenson, and Herbert Horne.Yale, 2003; 256 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 75,00 Voor/Our Price € 22,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 69 %
Sinds 1996 is Kader Abdolah een vaste waarde in de maandageditie van de Volkskrant. In zijn columns bespreekt onder het pseudoniem Mirza op eigenzinige wijze de actualiteit. Deze bundel bevat de Volkskrant-columns van 2003-2008.De Geus, 2009; 374 pp.; NL; pbpb € 15,00
Jonathan Aitken was for many years at the heart of British journalism and politics. This is a book of profiles with Aitken's personal insights, anecdotes and judgements on fascinating public figures he encountered -Churchill, Lord Beaverbrook, Thatcher.Continuum, 2006; 254 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 22,50 Voor/Our Price € 7,90Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 65 %
Over the course of his 60 years, English American author, essayist and journalist Christopher Hitchens was both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the US war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He was both a a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary bob vivant. In other words, Hitchens contains multitudes. He sees all sides of an argument, and he believed the personal is political.Twelve, 2010; 435 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 26,99 Voor/Our Price € 10,90Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 60 %
Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his early magazine pieces, his revelatiry book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and his campaign coverage in Rolling Stone. William McKeen became friends with Thompson after writing a monograph on his journalism. For this biography, McKeen interviewed many of Thompson's associates who wouldn't speak before, and gets behind the drinking and drugs to show Thompson the man and the writer.Norton, 2008; 428 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 27,95 Voor/Our Price € 9,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 64 %
Propaganda is as much a weapon as tanks and guns, and it was deployed by German forces at the ferocious Battle of Cassino in May 1944 in hopes of impelling members of the multinational Allied forces to desert their comrades. This book is a catalogue of propaganda leaflets, reproduced here in colour in the original size, collected during the battle, documenting the Nazi's skillful but ultimately unsuccessful campaign to win the battle.Mark Batty Publ., 2005; 64 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 17,95 Voor/Our Price € 7,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 55 %
This engrossing book explores the relationship between journalism and politics in the twentieth century and tells the stories of the journalists -both good and bad- who have played major roles.Yale, 2002; 416 pp.; EN; index; hbVan/List Price € 48,00 Voor/Our Price € 14,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 69 %
Like Alfred Nobel, Joseph Pulitzer is better known today for the prize that bears his name than for his contribution to history. Yet, in 19th-century industrial America, Pulitzer ushered in the modern mass media. The author traces the epic story of the Jewish Hungarian immigrant's rise through American politics and into journalism where he accumulated immense power and wealth, only to fall blind and become a lonely, tormented recluse wandering the globe.Harper, 2010; 558 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 29,99 Voor/Our Price € 12,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 57 %
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