True stories : a century of literary journalism / Norman Sims ; foreword by Ted Conover.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sims, Norman
Corporate Author: Medill School of Journalism
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2007.
Series:Visions of the American press.
Subjects:
Reportage literature, American > History and criticism.
American prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American prose literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Journalism > United States > History > 20th century.
Journalism > United States > History > 21st century.
Physical Description:xxiii, 398 pages ; 21 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 1. A true story. The long fall of one-eleven heavy / Michael Paterniti
  • 2. Sketches and innovation
  • 3. A generation goes traveling. Red Caucasus / John Dos Passos
  • 4. The discovery of the Depression. The jumping-off place / Edmund Wilson
  • 5. The bomb. The old house at home / Joseph Mitchell
  • 6. Tourist in a strange land : Tom Wolfe and the new journalists. New generations.