Bill McClellan

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

Through the Glass Darkly

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

Looking Back at Forty Years of Stories: Where Did They All Come From?

"Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon. When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done--a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet. Now a single volume brings together the full range of his work: monologues from A Prairie Home Companion, stories from The New Yorker and The Atlantic, excerpts from novels, newspaper columns. With an extensive introduction and headnotes, photographs, and memorabilia, The Keillor Reader also presents pieces never before published"--

The Keillor Reader

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Charles Krauthammer

Great, like new condition. Dust jacket is in fantastic condition, pages have no turned corners or rips. A great find! 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Colorado

A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors

Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is an intimate collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, political and philosophical--including never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future of global democracy--this is the most profound book yet by the legendary writer and thinker. For longtime readers and newcomers alike, The Point of It All is a timely and much needed demonstration of what it means to cut through the noise of petty politics with clarity, integrity and intellectual fortitude. Edited and with an introduction by the columnist's son, Daniel Krauthammer, the book is a reminder of what made Charles Krauthammer the most celebrated American columnist and political thinker of his generation, a look at the man behind the words, and a lasting testament to his belief that anyone with an open and honest mind can grapple deeply with the most urgent questions in politics and life.

The Point of It All

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Slight edge discoloration due to age. See photos.

Wisconsin

My Mother The Arsonist & other toasty tales

Andy Rooney

New York

Essays taken from the author's syndicated newspaper columns.

Pieces of My Mind

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Jenny Mollen

North Dakota

Stories about Me and Some Other People

Hi, I'm Jenny Mollen, an actress and writer living in Los Angeles. I'm also a wife, married to someone more famous than me, which is especially annoying because all the free clothing he gets never come in a size small. This is my book, an assortment of stories about not doing the right thing. Yes, it's about me. But it's also about women, who all come in two types: those that are totally batshit crazy, and those that are liars. It's a book about acting on impulses, plotting elaborate hoaxes, and refusing to acknowledge boundaries in any form. Like hiding in the trunk of a car to get a look at the girl who used to fuck my husband. Or pretending to have a seizure on a red-eye to New York in order to explain why my dog is balls-deep in a bag of Pirates' Booty burrowed in the lap of a sleeping child. Life is too short for bullshit. I'm 33 and my tits drop half an inch a year. Someday very soon, ladies, you and I are going to be whatever fetish comes after "cougar," unable to wear shirts without sleeves, and full of cell phone cancer. It is our obligation to be honest with ourselves about who we really are and what we really want. Which more often than not is someone else's email password. So let's embrace it. I Like You Just the Way I Am is a book about taking the high road--as long as it intersects with the train tracks my ex-boyfriend is tied to.

I Like You Just the Way I Am

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Gary Stanley Becker

Guity N. Becker

Florida

From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our Everyday Life

Not just another book on economics, this thought-provoking collection extends well beyond the traditional range of social science and recommends change in public policy and individual behavior to guide readers into the next millennium. This is a collection of Becker's best essays culled from his BusinessWeek columns and op-ed pieces in Wall Street Journal.

The Economics of Life

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Discolored book jacket with some chipping on the edges 

William Morrow and Co, 1977, 239 pages

Anna Kowalczek arrived on Capitol Hill the very day America entered World War II. She infiltrated the exclusively male domains of politics and journalism by hiding her intelligence and drive behind a façade of cheerful, irreverent innocence—playing the role men expected of bright, pretty girls in 1941. Thirty-five years later, Anna Hastings, widow of Texas Senator Gordon Hastings, is an influential columnist, powerful television personality, major political figure, publisher of one of the most respected newspapers in the country, and master of a media empire she ruled with a whim of iron.
Anna Hastings is the story of her public and personal struggles as she climbs her way from obscurity to legend, set against the backdrop of Washington during the tumultuous years of World War, Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the emergence of feminism as a distinct political force. Drawing on his years reporting on the Senate, Allen Drury again presents an "insider's view" of both the Senate and the Washington Press Corps during these decades of rapid social and political change




California

The story of a Washington newspaper person AH

Anna Hastings

#paperback #minnesota #columnist #newspaper #foodie #homeimprovement #humor

This book is in like new condition, no creases or wear. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

A Mixed Bag of Reports on Overlong Repair Projects, Smart Remarks from Dogs, and a Whole Lot of One Man's Decline into Mental Cottage Cheese

For close to twenty years, Al Sicherman wrote a hugely popular column in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Here he offers an assortment of those delightfully entertaining reports: The solution to the mystery of underwear in the gutter; tales of household and automotive repairs gone horribly wrong; peculiar insights into the world of finance; observations on ?increasing geezerification, ? and much more.

Uncle Al's Geezer Salad

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No notations, underlining or highlights. No page creases.  Sticker residue front cover. Minor surface, spine,  edge  wear. 

Georgia

Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

Selected essays previously published in various periodicals and journals.

Things That Matter

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#baseball #sports #interview #columnist #eighties #1980s

The Craft of Baseball

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning political commentator and longtime baseball fanatic George F. Will--the #1 bestselling ultimate insider's look at the exacting craft of baseball

Men at Work

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Ben Yagoda

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Virginia

A Biography

Biography of American humorist and entertainer Will Rogers discussing his career and personal life.

Will Rogers

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#paperback #chicagotribune #commentary #pulitzer #collection #columnist #maryschmich

Illinois

The Best of Mary Schmich

Over the last two decades, Mary Schmich's bi-weekly column in theChicago Tribune has offered advice, humor, and discerning commentary on a broad array of topics including family, milestones, mental illness, writing, and life in Chicago. Schmich won the 2012 Pulitzer for Commentary for "her down-to-earth columns that reflect the character and capture the culture of her famed city."

This collection brings together her ten Pulitzer-winning columns along with 154 others, creating a compelling collection that reflects Schmich's thoughtful and insightful sensibility. The book is divided into 13 sections, with topics focused on loss and survival, relationships, Chicago, travel, holidays, reading and writing, and more. Schmich's 1997 "Wear Sunscreen" column (which has had a life of its own as a falsely attributed Kurt Vonnegut commencement speech) is included, as well as her columns focusing on the demolition of Chicago's infamous Cabrini-Green housing project. One of the most moving sections is her twelve-part series with U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow, as the latter reflected on rebuilding her life after the horrific murders of her mother and husband.

Schmich's columns are both universal and deeply personal. The first section ofThe Best of Mary Schmich is dedicated to columns about her mother, and her stories of coping with her mother's aging and eventual death. Throughout the book, Schmich reflects wisely and wryly on the world we live in, and her fond observances of Chicago life bring the city in all its varied character to warm, vivid life.

Even the Terrible Things Seem Beautiful to Me Now

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Ben Shapiro

Facts Don't Care about Your Feelings

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Debbie Macomber

New Jersey

Harlequin Romance 3148 9/91

Here Comes Trouble by Debbie Macomber released on Jul 25, 1991 is available now for purchase.

Here Comes Trouble

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#paperback #baseball #sportingnews #columnist #newspaper #sports #sixties #1960s #halloffame

This book is in excellent structural condition but has two small stains on the front cover near the spine. Otherwise excellent with no wear or damage.

Columns from the Sporting News, 1962-1969

Cooperstown Corner

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#baseball #eighties #newspaper #columnist #sports #1980s

A splendid gathering of insightful, witty, beautifully evocative writings on our national pastime. Anyone interested in baseball cannot fail to be captivated by Boswell's penetrating look at the game and by his graceful prose.--USA Today.

The Heart of the Order

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Hailey North

This book has wear to the spine and natural aging of pages. 

Michigan

"...so give up on him and get on with your life. He will only break your heart, My conclusion as to his ability to commit is...Diagnosis Terminal!" The Love Doctor Daffodil "Daffy" Landry stared at her words of advice to the lovelorn and pressed her hand against her breast. Was she writing about this unknownCasanova...or about herself? Broken Hearts Mended Here Diagnosis Terminal! Charming, sexy, and self-made Hunter James isn't one to back away from a challenge. Slapping his copy of the New Orleans Crescent against his thigh, he approached the newspaper's outer office. How dare that anonymous, autocratic, and insufferable Love Doctor label him as incapable of commitment? Did she ever consider that he simply hasn't met the right woman? He'll uncover the author's identity and give her a piece of his mind. But first, appreciating an opportunity when it presents itself, he's got to meet the beckoning blonde behind the reception desk. Who knows? Maybe the Love Doctor has led him to the woman of his dreams after all...

Dear Love Doctor

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Utah

Dan Savage

Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist

Welcome to the hot new wave of writing about sex: Savage Love. Columnist Dan Savage has hand-picked over 300 letters from six years worth of "Savage Love," a no-holds-barred syndicated sex-advice column which runs in 16 papers in the United States and Canada, including The Village Voice and the San Francisco Weekly. An original and funny thinker, thrashing around in the playground of human sexuality, Savage advises on a wide range of titillating topics:* What is the best seduction music?* How do I come out to my fundamentalist parents?* What is so wonderful about intercourse, anyway?Forget Anka Radakovich and Isadora Altman. Tune in to Dan Savage as he answers these questions and much more in his own uniquely irreverent and sexually spunky style.

Savage Love

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Ben Hecht

Bill Savage

"A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago" is a compilation of more than 60 columns written by Ben Hecht for the Chicago Daily News that his editor called "journalism extraordinary; journalism that invaded the realm of literature.

A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago

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William E. Blundell

Based on the Wall Street Journal Guide

Storytelling—how to catch and hold a reader’s interest through artful narration of factual material William E. Blundell, one of the best writers on one of America's best-written papers—The Wall Street Journal—has put his famous Journal Feature-Writing Seminars into this step-by-step guide for turning out great articles. Filled with expert instruction on a complex art, it provides beginners with a systematic approach to feature writing and deftly teaches old pros some new tricks about: · How and where to get ideas · What readers like and don’t like · Adding energy and interest to tired topics · Getting from first ideas to finish article · The rules of organization · How—and whom—to quote and paraphrase · Wordcraft, leads, and narrative flow · Self-editing and notes on style … plus many sample feature articles.

The Art and Craft of Feature Writing

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Robert Kuttner

Signed by author. Dust jacket intact and clean text. 

Massachusetts

Signed by author 

One of our leading social critics recounts capitalism’s finest hour, and shows us how we might achieve it once again. In the past few decades, the wages of most workers have stagnated, even as productivity increased. Social supports have been cut, while corporations have achieved record profits. Downward mobility has produced political backlash. What is going on? Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? argues that neither trade nor immigration nor technological change is responsible for the harm to workers’ prospects. According to Robert Kuttner, global capitalism is to blame. By limiting workers’ rights, liberating bankers, allowing corporations to evade taxation, and preventing nations from assuring economic security, raw capitalism strikes at the very foundation of a healthy democracy. The resurgence of predatory capitalism was not inevitable. After the Great Depression, the U.S. government harnessed capitalism to democracy. Under Roosevelt’s New Deal, labor unions were legalized, and capital regulated. Well into the 1950s and ’60s, the Western world combined a thriving economy with a secure and growing middle class. Beginning in the 1970s, as deregulated capitalism regained the upper hand, elites began to dominate politics once again; policy reversals followed. The inequality and instability that ensued would eventually, in 2016, cause disillusioned voters to support far-right faux populism. Is today’s poisonous alliance of reckless finance and ultranationalism inevitable? Or can we find the political will to make capitalism serve democracy, and not the other way around? Charting a plan for bold action based on political precedent, Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? is essential reading for anyone eager to reverse the decline of democracy in the West.

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Bill McClellan

Through the Glass Darkly

Garrison Keillor

The Keillor Reader

Charles Krauthammer

The Point of It All

Dave Wood

My Mother The Arsonist & other toasty tales

Andy Rooney

Pieces of My Mind

Jenny Mollen

I Like You Just the Way I Am

Gary Stanley Becker; Guity N. Becker

The Economics of Life

Allen Drury

Anna Hastings

Al Sicherman

Uncle Al's Geezer Salad

Charles Krauthammer

Things That Matter

George F. Will

Men at Work

Ben Yagoda

Will Rogers

Mary Schmich

Even the Terrible Things Seem Beautiful to Me Now

Ben Shapiro

Facts Don't Care about Your Feelings

Debbie Macomber

Here Comes Trouble

Lee Allen; Steven P. Gietschier (Introduction by); Paul Adomites (Foreword by)

Cooperstown Corner

Thomas Boswell

The Heart of the Order

Hailey North

Dear Love Doctor

Ben Shapiro

Facts Don't Care about Your Feelings

Dan Savage

Savage Love

Andy Rooney

Pieces of My Mind

Ben Hecht; Bill Savage

A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago

William E. Blundell

The Art and Craft of Feature Writing

Robert Kuttner

Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?