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The Art of Fact: A Historical
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This fascinating compilation of the journalist's art unites the reporter's magnificent eye for detail with the novelist's gift for storytelling. Featuring eyewitness accounts of war and social revolution, profiles of sports heroes and politicians, and eye-opening investigations into both the mundane and the eccentric details of life, it includes:
-- Walt Whitman on the Battle of Chancellorsville
-- Stephen Crane, George Orwell, and Jack London on how the other half lives
-- Abraham Cahan on immigrants arriving in New York
-- Rebecca West on Bosnia
-- Piers Paul Read on survival in the Andes
-- Jimmy Breslin on John F Kennedy's funeral
-- Richard Ben Cramer on the 1988 presidential election
-- Svetlana Alexiyevich on the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
-- David Simon on Baltimore's homicide interrogation room
-- Bill Buford on soccer thugs
-- Rosemary Mahoney on a lesbian bar in Dublin.

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