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Baseret på aldrig tidligere benyttede primære kilder var Tom Buk-Swienty i 2005 manden bag den første fuldstændige biografi om den legendariske dansk-amerikanske journalist, sociale reformist og dokumentar-fotograf, Jacob Augustus Riis (1849-1914). Nu udkommer bogen i forfatterens reviderede udgave. Riis’ historie er både en dramatisk udvandrerhistorie og en storslået kærlighedshistorie. Og så er det historien om en mand med en klar, stædig vision og en drøm om at skabe et bedre samfund - en drøm, han sågar evnede at realisere i praksis.

En ærlig, personlig og inspirerende bog fuld af livskloge klummer fra en af verdens mest kendte og respekterede kvinder: Oprah Winfrey. Hun blev undfanget ved et uromantisk engangsknald. Hun var et uønsket barn, født uden kærlighed. Den eneste følelse, hun husker fra sin opvækst, er ensomhed. I dag er hun en af verdens mest respekterede og beundrede offentlige personligheder. I bogen her fortæller Oprah Winfrey om, hvordan hun, mod alle odds, har skabt sig et liv fuldt af stjernestunder og nære, varme venskaber.

I "Ingen vej udenom" møder man en mand, der møder livet. Med åben pande. Både det liv, han har levet i gamle dage, f.eks. med barndomsvennen Klaus Rifbjerg, og det, der ligger lige for, når han går ud ad sin gadedør. I Niels Barfoeds tilfælde befinder den sig i det lyslevende Nyhavn. Han ved aldrig, hvad der sker, når han går hjemmefra. Men det er værd at læse om.

I 1969 besluttede Tove Ditlevsen at skifte forlag. Hun henvendte sig til Mogens Knudsen, der i disse år var litterær direktør på Gyldendal. Han tog imod hende med åbne arme, han blev hendes redaktør, han læste og redigerede hendes manuskripter; og de to fik i løbet af kort tid et fortroligt forhold, der rakte langt ud over det litterære felt. Med sit skrøbelige sind var Tove Ditlevsen ustandselig i vanskeligheder og bad Mogens Knudsen om råd og dåd i forbindelse med sine økonomiske forhold, skattebetaling, den sindsoprivende skilsmisse fra Victor Andreasen, som blev realiseret i disse år.

Zwanzig Minuten hat Christian Sievers in einer "heute"-Sendung, um über das aktuelle Weltgeschehen zu berichten - und muss dabei erklären, zusammenfassen, weglassen. In diesem Hörbuch erzählt er die Geschichten hinter der Nachricht. Gerade in den Krisengebieten dieser Welt stößt er auf Unerwartetes, Überraschendes, Verwirrendes: Humor neben Hass, Mut in der Katastrophe, Propaganda mit Augenzwinkern und Lügner, die den Wert der Wahrheit predigen. Eine verunsicherte Medienwelt steht vor der Herausforderung, all diesen Facetten der Story gerecht zu werden.

In Sometimes You Have to Cross When It Says 'Don't Walk,' Lesley Visser shares her historic journey through the world of sports broadcasting with innate wisdom and good humor. For sports fans who grew up with Lesley, her memoir reads like a walk down memory lane, full of behind-the-camera, VIP-access stories involving John Madden, Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, Joe Torre, and many more famous sports figures. But even those hearing her story for the first time, no matter what their background, will be inspired to chase their dreams, blaze new trails, and pursue the life they want.

In his neighborhood of Liberty Heights, gas lights glowed on every corner, milkmen delivered bottles of milk, and a loaf of bread cost nine cents. Although Osgood had many interests as a child, what captivated him more than anything else was the radio. He would listen huddled under the covers, after his parents had turned off the lights, to Spiderman, Superman, The Lone Ranger, the Shadow - and of course baseball.

Brought to you by Penguin. In this, his first memoir, John recounts his childhood, the highpoints and lowpoints of one of the longest entertaining careers in history, and the people, family and animals in his own life which have shaped it. Born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, John showed an early...

David E. McCraw recounts his experiences as the top newsroom lawyer for The New York Times during the most turbulent era for journalism in generations.

A coming-of-age memoir about a young boy in rural Arkansas who searches for himself and his distant father through soul music Growing up in rural Arkansas, young Rashod Ollison turned to music to make sense of his life. The dysfunction, sadness, and steely resilience of his family and neighbors...

Nationally syndicated talk-radio host and noted film critic Michael Medved has taken an extraordinary journey from liberal activist to outspoken conservative. Along the way he has earned millions of admirers—and more than his share of enemies—by advancing controversial, often...

In 2006, journalist Deborah Cassrels embarked on a personal odyssey to the Indonesian island of Bali. She was quickly enchanted by everything that most tourists find - its beauty, easy lifestyle, exotic culture, stunning beaches and striking landscapes. Three years later she moved there and became The Australian newspaper's first Bali-based correspondent, covering events throughout Indonesia. Peeling back the tourist veneer, Cassrels soon found herself caught up in a tapestry of beauty, mystery, power, corruption and violence.

Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote letters, often several each day. Today, those letters provide an intimate and revealing look at the lives and loves of the people who wrote them. When the author is a brilliant writer who lived an...

WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE A prize-winning historian’s “effervescent” (The New Yorker) account of a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism “High-speed...

This "part memoir, part sports story" (Wall Street Journal) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Bam chronicles the clash of NBA titans over seven riveting games—Celtics versus Lakers, Russell versus Chamberlain—covered by one young reporter. Welcome to the 1969 NBA Finals!...

As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks...

Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty years From his parents’ life in the Thirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on...

'"All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them,' Isak Dinesen once said. Sorrows are all pain otherwise, pain without sense or meaning. But joys, too, it seems to me, need their context. And sometimes their coexistence needs to be borne. The coexistence or...

From Tallulah Bankhead to Joan Crawford to the Kennedys and Madonna, the ultimate insider, Liz Smith has hobnobbed, air-kissed, and lunched with just about everybody who's been anybody over the last half-century--and then rushed to tell the world all about it. Now, in this candid, down-to-earth...

“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also my love letter to autistic people. For too long, we have been forced to navigate a world where all the road signs are written in...