Mammoth Book of Journalism An Anthology of the 100 Greatest Newspaper Articles

Every day, newspapers both record and influence the course of history. From social documentaries like Charles Dickens's harrowing description of the Ragged School in 1852, or Tom Wolfe's account of the permissive society of the 1960s in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, to war reports, politics, or John F. Burns's account of the Taliban insurrection in Afghanistan in 1997, what is written in the world's papers makes waves that affect us all. The dispatches collected here, many of which brought the writers awards, are literary snapshots of the last 150 years. Stories of war, politics, sport, disaster, crime, fashion, civil rights, corruption and culture are compellingly told by the great names in journalism. Plus many other examples of modern history in the making. Book jacket.Lewis, Jon is the author of 'Mammoth Book of Journalism An Anthology of the 100 Greatest Newspaper Articles' with ISBN 9780786711697 and ISBN 0786711698.