reportage literature, american

A collection of individual profiles and recollections by Gay Talese which describe the people, places, and moments that have impacted his life.

Reprints over 140 major stories from newspapers throughout the United States, each with an explanatory introduction, covering a period that ranges from 1704 to 2000.

Presents major news stories ignored by the main stream media in 2009 and 2010.

Presents writings by more than forty American investigative journalists spanning the history of the genre, including Henry Adams, Herman Melville, Upton Sinclair, Ralph Nader, Rachel Carson, Jessica Mitford, and Roy Gutman.

Studies how the work of twenty-one individuals changed the history of the United States in the twentieth century.

Presents an anthology of twenty-five essays covering creative nonfiction of both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Includes one hundred and forty major news stories from colonial times to the present arranged in chronological order of publication.