James Mcgrath Morris: 4 books
Pulitzer
A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
This epic biography, with its remarkable new research and vivid, fast-paced writing, will delight anyone who wants to understand the tangled history of politics and the press in modern America.” —Debby Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
“James...
Eye On the Struggle
Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
In this groundbreaking biography, celebrated author James McGrath Morris skillfully illuminates the life and accomplishments of pioneering journalist Ethel Lois Payne, while also bringing to the fore the critical role of the black press in the civil rights era.
Payne used her journalistic skills...
Jailhouse Journalism
The Fourth Estate Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
In the 1980s alone, some 100 periodicals were published by and for inmates of America's prisons. Unlike their peers who passed their sentences stamping out licence plates, these convicts spent their days like reporters in any community - looking for the story. Yet their own story, the lengthy history...
The Ambulance Drivers
Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a "lost generation" shaken by war.
Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos...