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Sourcebooks, Inc The Brainwashing of My Dad: How the Rise of the
Book SynopsisAfter her beloved dad got addicted to right-wing talk radio and Fox News, Jen Senko feared he would never be the same again…Frank Senko had always known how to have a good time. Despite growing up in a poverty-stricken family during the Depression and having to fight his way to middle-class status as an adult, he tended to look on the bright side. But after a job change forced Frank to begin a long car commute every day, his daughter Jen noticed changes in his personality and beliefs. Long hours on the road listening to talk radio commentators like Rush Limbaugh sucked her father into a suspicion-laden worldview dominated by conspiracy theories, fake news, and rants about the "coastal elite" and "libtards" trying to destroy America.Over the course of a few years, Jen's dad went from a nonpolitical, open-minded Democrat to a radical, angry, and intolerant right-wing devotee who became a stranger to those closest to him. As politics began to take precedence over everything else in her father's life, Jen was mystified. What happened to her dad? Was there anything she could do to help? And, most importantly, would he ever be his lovable self again? Jen began the search for answers, and found them... as well stories from countless other families like her own.Based on the award-winning documentary, The Brainwashing of My Dad uncovers the alarming right-wing strategy to wield the media as a weapon against our very democracy. Jen's story shows us how Fox News and other ultra-conservative media outlets are reshaping the way millions of Americans view the world, and encourages us to fight back.Trade Review""[Affecting]...liberals will have their worst suspicions about the right-wing mediasphere confirmed." - Publishers Weekly" - Publishers Weekly"Jen's story is brilliant and gives us all insight about what we can do when lying right-wing media seize the minds of our friends and family." - Thom Hartmann, New York Times bestselling author and progressive talk show host"The Brainwashing of My Dad is a pure delight—breezy to read while telling a compelling personal and big-picture story. The evolution of Jen Senko's dad from playful dad to crusty conservative and then back again is the lens through which she reveals the last 40 years of rightwing media propaganda. But while Senko details the corrosive grip that characters like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have had on our society, she inspires us with the redemption of her father and the superb suggestions to counter the spread of right-wing extremism. Read it and act!" - Medea Benjamin, author, activist, and cofounder of CODEPINK
£12.99
Transworld Murray Walker Incredible
Book SynopsisMaurice Hamilton (Author) Maurice Hamilton has been covering Formula 1 as a freelance journalist since 1977. He has attended more than 450 Grands Prix, including every race since 1984. The author of 19 books, Hamilton also commentates on the Grands Prix for BBC Radio 5 Live.
£25.84
The Liffey Press And Finally…: A Journalist's Life in 250 Stories
Book SynopsisBy any account Paddy Murray has had a remarkable life. From meeting entertainment and sports celebrities like John Wayne, Pele, Madonna, Eric Clapton, Richard Harris, Elton John, George Harrison, Eric Cantona and Eddie Irvine, to reporting on Ireland’s heroic loss in the World Cup at Italia ’90, to writing about Irish political scandals, tragedies, heinous crimes and much more over 40 years in the Evening Herald, Irish Daily Star, Sunday World and The Sunday Tribune, Paddy has seen it all. Along the way, Paddy managed to write gags for the Two Ronnies, performed comedy in front of a live audience, erected a plaque commemorating The Beatles’ only Irish performance at the Adelphi Cinema in Dublin, battled with Lymphoma for over 20 years and became a father at 50+. Looking back on a colourful life while now struggling with more health challenges - Stage 4 COPD - Paddy is adamant that the highs far outweigh the lows, that his marriage to Connie and the love of his daughter Charlotte make every painful treatment worthwhile. So come along on an entertaining journey recalling one journalist’s extraordinary life in 250 stories!
£15.95
Verso Books Beauty and the Inferno: Essays
Book SynopsisGomorrah, Roberto Saviano's 2006 exposé of Naples's Camorra mafia, was an international bestseller and became an award-winning film. But the death threats that followed forced the author into hiding. Saviano was ostracized by his countrymen and went on the run, changing his location every few months and compelled to keep perpetual company with his bodyguards. To this day, he lives in an undisclosed location.The loneliness of the fugitive life informs all the essays in Beauty and the Inferno, Saviano's first book since Gomorrah. Among other subjects, he writes about the legendary South African jazz singer Miriam Makeba, his meeting with the real-life Donnie Brasco, sharing the Nobel Academy platform with Salman Rushdie, and the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Present throughout the book is a sense of Saviano's peculiar isolation, which infuses his words with anger, exceptional insight and tragedy.Trade ReviewIt is good to be reminded of the raw bravery of the Savianos of this world and to salute them for sacrifices they have made in their challenges to power. -- Duncan Campbell * Guardian *I feel humble, almost insignificant, faced with the dignity and the courage of the writer and journalist Roberto Saviano, the man who has mastered the art of living. -- José SaramagoWe must thank Roberto Saviano for having returned to literature the ability to open eyes and minds. -- Mario Vargas LlosaIts tone is angry and urgent ... the essays in Beauty and the Inferno are in some sense a celebration of bravery and an expression of rage against corruption and cowardice. -- Caroline Moorehead * Times Literary Supplement *A perceptive and sympathetic critic and reader ... Saviano writes very well ... what he has to say demands to be read. Like Primo Levi, his testimony pricks our conscience, tests our resolve, makes us examine ourselves ... At once deeply disturbing and illuminating. -- Alan Taylor * Scottish Sunday Herald *He never pulls his punches, his message is incredibly important, and the facts he includes-such as the increase in cancer rates due to the illegal dumping of toxic waste-are like bombshells. -- Tobias Jones * Sunday Times *In his essay about [Anna] Politkovskaya, he writes: 'I do not care about beautiful stories that cannot be bothered with the blood of our times. I want to smell the rot of politics and the stench of business.' He achieves that and more in his own work. -- Patrick Freyne * Sunday Business Post *A beautiful object, from the surface through to its depths....Saviano's confidence and sheer bulldozing coherence could serve as inspiration to all writers, both of fiction and journalism, as the path around weak speechifying and dutiful responses. Read Saviano and feel hope. -- David Hammerschlag * Bookslut *Always passionate...Saviano's commitment to his subjects draws the reader in...This is a strong collection from a brave and keen-eyed reporter. * Publishers Weekly *
£19.96
Four Courts Press Ltd Periodicals and Journalism in Twentieth-Century
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Monash University Publishing Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism’s Toughest
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ATF Press A History of Theology
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£38.03
ATF Press A History of Theology
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£47.06
Allen & Unwin Drawn Out: A seriously funny memoir
Book SynopsisDrawn Out is a hilarious, heartbreaking, heart-warming account of Tom Scott's tragicomic childhood, his manic student-newspaper days, his turbulent years stumbling through the corridors of power, his fallings out with prime ministers, his collaborations with comic legends John Clarke, A.K. Grant and Murray Ball, his travels to the ends of the earth with his close friend Ed Hillary, and more...'A first-class memoir of a highly memorable life. Here is an important (often hilarious) writer and immensely gifted cartoonist, insightfully chronicling quite momentous changes in our political and social landscape.'Jim Mora, New Zealand BooksTrade Review'A first-class memoir of a highly memorable life. Here is an important (often hilarious) writer and immensely gifted cartoonist, insightfully chronicling quite momentous changes in our political and social landscape.'Jim Mora, New Zealand Books
£24.61
Harrassowitz Bibliographischer Nachweis Der Drucke Des
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Harrassowitz Seelen Der Stadt: Bibliotheken Im
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£25.00
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Dynamics of Public Risk Perception and Media
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£39.75
Broad Book Press From Pitch to Print
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