Best of
Journalism

1983

In the Freud Archives


Janet Malcolm - 1983
    R. Eissler, the venerable doyen of psychoanalysis; Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a flamboyant, restless forty-two-year-old Sanskrit scholar turned psychoanalyst turned virulent anti-Freudian; and Peter Swales, a mischievous thirty-five-year-old former assistant to the Rolling Stones and self-taught Freud scholar. At the center of their Oedipal drama are the Sigmund Freud Archives--founded, headed, and jealously guarded by Eissler--whose sealed treasure gleams and beckons to the community of Freud scholarship as if it were the Rhine gold.Janet Malcolm's fascinating book first appeared some twenty years ago, when it was immediately recognized as a rare and remarkable work of nonfiction. A story of infatuation and disappointment, betrayal and revenge, In the Freud Archives is essentially a comedy. But the powerful presence of Freud himself and the harsh bracing air of his ideas about unconscious life hover over the narrative and give it a tragic dimension.

Vietnam Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir


W.D. Ehrhart - 1983
    Ehrhart: "As a poet and editor, Bill Ehrhart is clearly one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature." This autobiographical account of the war, the author's first extended prose work, demonstrates Ehrhart's abilities as a writer of prose as well. Vietnam-Perkasie is grim, comical, disturbing, and accurate. The presentation is novelistic—truly, a "page-turner"—but the events are all real, the atmosphere intensely evocative.

The Media Monopoly


Ben H. Bagdikian - 1983
    Once called "alarmist," Bagdikian's claims are uncanny and chilling in their accuracyl This much-needed sixth edition follows up on the digital revolution, revealing startling details of a new communications cartel within the United States.

Don't Cry for Me, Sergeant-Major


Robert McGowan - 1983
    The Falklands conflict was supremely an "other ranks" war. Here, then, is their side of the story, recorded at the time by two front line journalists. In their own words, often profane, usually funny, always to the point, the men of the Falklands Task Force and those who accompanied them describe what it was actually like to fight an underdog's battle in an icy wilderness 8000 miles from home. Funny, moving, incisive, occasionally bitter, always humorously resigned, this is the story of one war which could be any war, a portrait of the British soldier, in all his mud-stained glory. Here's to him, wha's like him? Gey few, and a lot of them dead.

Tim Page's Nam


Tim Page - 1983
    They are exhilarating, masculine, terrified, pathetic and criminal. It is rare for a group of photographs to drag the viewer so violently into the middle of someone else's life.' - American Photographer

Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the "Japanese Miracle"


Jared Taylor - 1983
    

Good Times, Bad Times


Harold Evans - 1983
    When Australian publishing baron Rupert Murdoch bought the daily Times of London, he persuaded Evans to become its editor with guarantees of editorial independence. But after a year of broken promises and conflict over the paper's direction, Evans departed amid an international media firestorm. Evans's story is a gripping behind-the-scenes look at Murdoch's ascension to global media magnate. It is Murdoch laid bare, an intimate account of a man using the power of his media empire for his own ends. Riveting, provocative, and insightful, Good Times, Bad Times is as relevant today as when it was first written. This book features a new preface by the author, in which he discusses the Rupert Murdoch phone-hacking scandal.

Mountains of the Middle Kingdom: Exploring the High Peaks of China and Tibet


Galen A. Rowell - 1983
    Rowell's text sets his own adventures in this exotic region against a rich historical and cultural background, recreating the exploits of and describing the dramatic changes that recent years have wrought on Chinese life and society. From the palaces of Lhasa to the pristine strongholds of the snow leopard, the 85 splendid color photographs and compelling narrative map a geography that stretches the bounds of imagination.

How to Commit Suicide in South Africa


Sue Coe - 1983
    Traces the history of apartheid in South Africa, denounces the use of detention and torture by South African police, and looks at the Free World's relations with South Africa.

Becalmed in the Mullet Latitudes: Al Burt's Florida


Al Burt, Jr. - 1983
    

Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia


Art Rosenbaum - 1983
    Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two songs and instrumentals, enhanced by photographs, illustrations, biographical sketches of performers, and examples of their narratives, sermons, tales, and reminiscences.

Into the Newsroom: An Introduction to Journalism


Leonard Ray Teel - 1983
    

Teeline (Teeline)


Meriel Bowers - 1983
    it is divided into small learning units with a wide range of examples and exercises at each stage.

Newspaperman: S.I. Newhouse and the Business of News


Richard H Meeker - 1983