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050 00 $aPN4726$b.P76 2011
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245 04 $aThe Princeton reader :$bcontemporary essays by writers and journalists at Princeton University /$cedited by John McPhee and Carol Rigolot.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2011.
300 $axiv, 389 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aPreface / John McPhee -- Aliens / Joel Achenbach -- Baby Jessica ; History: How American Myths Are Made / Evan Thomas -- If You Want to Humble an Empire / Nancy Gibbs -- / Fighting for Life 50 Floors Up, with One Tool and Ingenuity; US Airways Flight 1549: Old Hands on the River Didn't Have to be Told What to Do / Jim Dwyer -- Anthrax / Marilyn Thompson -- The Everyman Who Exposed Tainted Toothpaste / Walt Bogdanich -- When the Terror Began / Alexander Wolff -- Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America / Michael Dobbs -- A Knock on the Door / Serge Schmemann -- Tiananmen Massacre / Rose Tang -- Finding Respite from Worries / Jill Abramson -- My Father's Closet / John Seabrook -- A Backward Glance / Elizabeth Kendall -- Silk Parachute / John McPhee -- The Road Block ; Burning My Father / Peter Godwin -- A Moving Experience / Paula Span -- The Lure of the Frozen Lake / Julia Keller -- True Love Is Made of This ; The Greatest Penn Success Story / Michael Vitez -- A Pit Bull Who Provided Lessons in Loyalty and Unfailing Love ; A Sign: It's Jesus, or a Lunch Bargain / Peter Applebome -- The Two Lives of John Favors '72: A Political Activist Becomes a Monk in the Hare Krishna Movement / Melvin R. McCray -- In Albania, a Girl Who Became a Man ; The North Korean Film Festival: No Stars, No Swang, but What a Crowd! / Barbara Demick -- Title Inflation: How Hollywood Watches Our Wallets / -- Bob Mondello -- Ice Accommodations / Juliet Eilperin -- The Renaissance of the Marais / Mitchel Levitas -- Walking to Vermont / Christopher S. Wren -- Between a Woman and Her Doctor: A Story about Abortion / Martha Mendoza -- Baby's First Helmet / James V. Grimaldi -- After Etan: The Missing Child Case That Held America Captive / Lisa Cohen -- A Hostage Crisis Hits Latin America / Juanita Darling -- Children Caught in the Immigration Crossfire / Kathy Kiely -- A Father's Promise / Geraldine Moriba Meadows -- McKinley High School / Athelia Knight / A Believing Principal Leads a Battle to Save a School Edison's Big Loss / Dan Grech -- Yodobashi No.6 / T. R. Reid -- Sports: The Glue for Lost Kids / Filip Bondy -- Curtis Williams-Victory and Ruins/ Ken Armstrong -- Arson Science- To Their Rescue? / Emilie Lounsberry -- Stinging Tentacles Offer Hint of Oceans' Decline / Elisabeth Rosenthal -- Chernobyl: The Danger Persists / Felicity Barringer -- Alaska: Oil's Groud Zero / Jeffrey Bartholet -- Artic Rush / Craig Duff -- The X Files / Thomas E. Weber -- Internet Gambling / Gilbert Gaul -- Seeking New Ways to Nurture the Capacity to Report / Charles Lewis -- Role Model: Sarah McClendon ; Remembering a Friend: Ed Bradley Was a Gift to Journalism / Roberta Oster Sachs -- Whose Media Are We? / Ralph J. Begleiter -- The West and the Arab World: The Case of Media / Daoud Kuttab -- Don't E-mail Me ; Millions of Women Weep ; The Lessons of Cain / Joel Stein -- A View to a Kill / Charles Lane -- Cuba: The End of the End of the Revolution / Roger Cohen -- Guantanamo / Jane Mayer -- The Promise ; Gaza Notebook: The Bullets in My In-Box / Ethan Bronner -- A Gaza Diary / Chris Hedges -- In Horses, a Personal Refuge ; Hints of Lives Are All That Remains ; Now They Execute Polite Shuffles: There's a Strange Semeness in the Stories of Baath Party Members in Iraq ; In Land of Ruin, a House of Stone Shelters Delight / Paul Salopek -- Iraq: Transformation Bypasses the Heartland ; Hezbollah Fighter Strove to be a Martyr / Thanassis Cambanis -- Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War / Peter Maass -- Bosnia's Elite "Disappeared" / Roy Gutman -- Stone Age Ways Surviving, Barely ; Oshima Journal: After 90 Years, Small Gestures of Joy for Lepers / Calvin Sims -- Ella in Wonderland ; On Writers and Writing: D. H. Lawrence Frees the Slaves / Margo Jefferson -- Max Perkins: Editor of Genius / A. Scott Berg -- The Prince / Claudia Roth Pierpont -- Diary of a Bad Year, by J. M. Coetzee ; Beowulf and Fate Meet in a Modern Poet's Lens / Richard Eder -- John Leonard / Robert Christgau -- Growing by Degrees: Kanye West -- Pop Music: The Durability of Doo-Wop ; On the White Side of Crossover Dreams / Martin Gottlieb -- Something in the Air / Marc Fisher -- The Sonata Seminar / Alex Ross -- Shooting War / Mark Feeney -- A Battalion of One's Own Injured in Iraq, a Soldier Is Shattered at Home / Deborah Sontag -- David Maraniss / Connections -- Trevor Manuel and the Liberation of Nelson Mandela / Pippa Green -- Jerry Brown Still Wants Your Vote / Michael Duffy -- "I Don't Feel No Ways Tired" / Jeff Gerth -- Fannie Lou Hamer / Kay Mills -- The Fourth of July / Greil Marcus
650 0 $aJournalism$zUnited States.
650 0 $aReportage literature, American.
650 0 $aAmerican essays.
700 1 $aMcPhee, John,$d1931-
700 1 $aRigolot, Carol.
710 2 $aPrinceton University.