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An evaluation of the experimentation of newspapers and television stations in the United States with novel approaches to reporting that closely link the news media to the genuine information needs of the public. This ""public"" journalism contradicts some principles of traditional reporting.

This text offers an insider's view on covering the news. The author has travelled throughout the Middle East as a photojournalist for over 20 years and recounts the stories behind the stories. From travels with Kissinger to the battles of Desert Storm, he provides a behind-the-lens perspective.

This biography of Missourian Frank Blair demonstrates the extent of his importance as a national political figure, showing his ardent support of Abraham Lincoln and championing of the president's programme in Congress. He is one of only two Missourians honoured by his state in Statuary Hall.

This study of the work of Charles Johnson, the African-American writer who began as a political cartoonist, examines how Johnson incorporates the influences of phenomenology, Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism and Romanticism into an original perspective on individual and social identity.

In this text, William Holtz re-creates scenes and episodes from his early life with his family. These interlocking essays examine the lives of each member of his family and the intertwining effects of heredity, circumstance, and choice in individual lives.

This text re-examines Hardy's novels, emphasizing the love triangles that populate his work. It argues that Hardy was actually sympathetic to his female characters, and refutes the generally accepted reason for Hardy's abandonment of fiction at the height of his success.

This critical reader takes eight fictional stories on the subject of domestic violence, by well-known authors from Hemingway to D.H. Lawrence, and assesses them in light of the author's experience as a volunteer group co-counsellor of male batterers.

This collection of five individual yet interconnected stories, chronicles the ripple effects that one life or action can have on the lives of many seemingly unrelated people. An earthquake acts as a melodic theme through each story, singing of life's unpredictability and precariousness.

Troubled relationships between parents and children provide the framework for many stories in this collection.

These stories feature women who share one main characteristic: the sense of loss. They show how women who appear ordinary on the surface often live extraordinary private lives. The stories also explore such social issues as domestic violence, teenage pregnancy and child-rearing after divorce.

This text presents an insight into the Truman presidency using newly available documents, memoirs and letters. It is based upon extensive research in the major primary sources as well as relevant printed material and combines journalistic technique and historical method.

Proposes that despite cultural differences, some values are shared and that a recognition of their universality can facilitate cross-cultural negotiation, understanding and cooperation. The book defines a minimalist set of values, those that are most commonly known to most people in most societies.

Traces the history of ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" from 1876 to its position in today's American culture. Approaching the novel from several different perspectives, the author reveals how Mark Twain's imagination worked and why the novel has affected so many people in so many curious ways.

When a boat capsizes on Lake Coeur d'Alene, it is Martha, the narrator and central character of these interrelated stories, who hears the strangers' cries for help. By retelling the rescue story, the constellation of Martha's family is defined and Martha's journey as a ""heroine of hearing"" begins.

These essays diagnose the present situation of Western thought by making explicit the philosophical presuppositions to which it is committed. They include theological affirmations, reflections on epistemology, conceptual analyses and dialogues with other writers in the field of cultural criticism.

This work collects some of John Shelton Reed's classic essays which offer an introduction to the sociology of the South. Beginning with the roots of regional sociology, Reed examines threads of continuity and change in southern sociology, including issues like southern stereotypes.

This work presents the political ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville, as set out in his work ""Democracy in America"", in the context of contemporary politics and ideas. The central concern of the book reflects De Tocqueville's own - that of reconciling liberty and order.

A full-length critical analysis of Updike's trilogy - ""A Month of Sundays"", ""Roger's Version"" and ""S"". Schiff demonstrates how Updike engages in a dialogue with Hawthorne's text, commenting upon and altering the original story.

Robert H. Ferrell presents powerful evidence of frightening medical cover-ups in the White House, tracing often shocking incidents - from Grover Cleveland's secret surgery for cancer to the questionable reporting of details on the health of both Ronald Reagan and George Bush.

Argentina's return to constitutional democracy in 1983 initiated a five-year cultural renaissance and film-making flourished. David Foster examines 10 important films made in that period and sets them in the context of Argentina's redemocratization and a range of social topics.

Looks inside the governmental system to show politics at its most human level, challenging the presumption of many political scientists that an understanding of government is necessarily technical and addressing such abstractions as memory and power as they work in the practice of governing.

In this volume, John Aldridge discusses the work of such major figures as Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Saul Bellow and Robert Penn Warren. Taken together, the essays offer not only a survey of Aldridge's career but also a picture of the evolution of contemporary literature.

Drawing on the thought of Heidegger and Hegel, among others, this work studies the role of explicit traditions in transmitting truths, explores the interaction of different traditions, and ultimately searches for an ecumenic wisdom.

A series of case studies which examine the degree and extent to which a dozen 17th-century poems deal with the history of the time out of which they came. The author emphasizes how important a knowledge of history and culture may be to the reader of literature.