No comments about Atlanta's Half-Century: As Seen Through the Eyes of Columnists Furman Bisher and Celestine Sibley.

No comments about The day before Idaho.

2 comments about "This is Herb" with Never a dull moment.

1. Herb Plambeck does it again! This facinating tale of one man's date with destiny is filled with more plot twists than the Watergate scandal. From the explosive first chapter to the climactic duel with the rabid mountain goat, the book is impossible to put down.



2. Herb Plambeck sprang from the soil of Iowa in the early 1900's and has spent his life reporting on and improving the way of Midwestern agriculture. By dint of energy, intelligence, and devotion to his roots he became a pioneering farm broadcaster, reporter, and prime mover in programs and events that year after year continue to join farm families all over the world in improving farm practices. Although he never obtained a high-school or college degree, he was able to serve as a war correspondent in WWII and Vietnam and later in Washington as public affairs assistant to two secretaries of agriculture. There is probably not a farmer or small-town midwesterner of the twentieth century who does not recognize the name Herb Plambeck from having heard his farm reports during his years on WHO radio in Des Moines and reading his articles in Wallaces Farmer magazine. This well-illustrated and detail-filled memoir will bring to mind many more names and events most of us have long forgotten and will remind us just how important the farmer is in this world. Would that we could all lead the useful and adventure-filled life of Mr. Plambeck, and then recount it so warmly and enthusiastically.

No comments about War, Journalism and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century: The Life and Times of Henry W. Nevinson.

1 comments about Ruth Hall (Girlebooks Classics).

1. The first novel by Fanny Fern, otherwise known as Sara Payson Willis, is a semi-autobiographical tale of a talented writer who loses her husband and is forced to support herself and two young children in the mid-1800s. Fern writes with biting social commentary on the subject of traditional assumptions of a woman's place in society.
   
   The chapters are short and character details are sparse. With a journalist's style, Fern builds her story through snippets of information and dialog. In these snippets, she fearlessly depicts real-life events and people, draping them in a fictional guise. Most of Fern's family is here--her father and brother and in-laws--in all their vicious detail. We follow the "story" of Ruth Hall from her happy married life to groveling for work while her relations turn a blind eye to her poverty and suffering. Upon her first successes as a paid writer, she takes the same approach in exposing the underhanded tactics of publishers, especially when dealing with women.
   
   Fern states in her preface that Ruth Hall is not a novel, preferring the term "continuous story". She wrote at variance with the traditional themes and styles of the time and therefore received her share of criticism for it. However she also had supporters. Notably, Nathaniel Hawthorne hoped that Fern's writing would encourage her female contemporaries to follow her example and "throw off the constraints of decency...then their books are sure to possess character and value."

No comments about There's Life After a Heart Attack.

No comments about March to a Promised Land: The Civil Rights Files of a White Reporter (Capital Currents Book).

No comments about Journey From Beaver Creek.

No comments about The life and times of I.F. Stone. (journalist and publisher): An article from: St. Louis Journalism Review.

No comments about Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the Glory Days of Fleet Street.