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Recommendations

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RECOMENDED READING

Here is a version of our Bookshelf Recomendations that is located in CMA's Learning Zone. The genesis for this list came from Tom Winski, and other CMA members have supplemented it. If a book that you mighty recommend is missing from the list, please notify the Webmaster.

Recommended Reading List Journalism Emphasis Students

All the President's Men by Woodward and Bernstein
Shaking the Foundations, edited by Bruce Shapiro
Literary Journalism, edited by Jean Chance and William McKeen
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Elements of Journalism by Kovach and Rosenstiel
On the Record by Tom Wicker
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Wolfe
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Wolfe
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Tom Sawyer
Most of Ernest Hemingway?s novels
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Devil in the White City (author?s name now escapes me)
Arc of Justice (about civil rights in Detroit during Jazz Age)
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
Any of John Updike?s ?Rabbit? novels
Paper Lion by George Plimpton
The Kingdom and the Power by Gay Talese
Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
Executioner's Song by Normal Mailer
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter Thompson
Any number of works by
Joan Didion
David Halberstam
Nora Ephron
Gail Sheehy
Late Innings, or just about any other baseball book by Roger Angell
Poison Penmanship or other works by Jessica Mitford
Any of the police novels written by Edna Buchanan
And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts
Trouble in the World or other works by P.J. O?Rourke
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The First Casualty by Phillip Knightly
No Cheering in the Press Box by Jerome Holtzman
Make No Law by Anthony Lewis
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Common Ground by J. Lukas Anthony
Personal History Katharine Graham, Personal History
Flashing Before My Eyes by Dick Schaap
The Yellow Kids by Joyce Milton
The Press and America by Edwin Emery
Best Newspaper Writing, annual series by The Poynter Institute
Four Theories of the Press by Fred S. Siebert, et. al.
Tuned Out by David Mindich
Covering Violence by Roger Simpson and William Cote


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