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- Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie. New York: Doubleday, 1997.
- Ashmore, Harry. Civil Rights and Wrongs.
- Bagdikian, Ben. The Effete Conspiracy and Other Crimes by the Press. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
- Bagdikian, Ben. The Media Monopoly. Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.
- Bayley, Edwin R. Joe McCarthy and the Press. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981.
- Beck, Ulrich. Risk Society. London: Sage, 1992.
- Berelson, Bernard. Content Analysis in Communication Research. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1952.
- Berelson, Bernard E., and Morris Janowitz, eds. Reader in Public Opinion and Communication. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1966.
- Bernays, Edward L. Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of Public Relations Counsel Edward L. Bernays. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965.
- Bernstein, Carl, and Bob Woodward. All the President's Men. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.
- Bliss, Edward Jr. In Search of Lights: The Broadcasts of Ed Murrow, 1938-1961. New York: Avon Books.
- Blum, D. Steven. Walter Lippmann: Cosmopolitanism in the Century of Total War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984.
- Bode, Carl. The Young Mencken: The Best of his Works. New York: Dial Press, 1973.
- Boorstin, Daniel J. The Image. New York: Harper & Row, 1961.
- Bragg, Rick. All Over but the Shoutin'. New York: Pantheon Books, 1997.
- Bragg, Rick. Somebody Told Me. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000.
- Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood. New York: Signet, 1965.
- Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
- Childs, Marquis, and James Reston, eds. Walter Lippmann and His Times. New York: Harcourt and Brace, 1968.
- Cronkite, Walter. A Reporter's Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
- Efron, Edith. The News Twisters. New York: Manor Books, 1971.
- Ellerbee, Linda. "And So It Goes": Adventures in Television. New York: Berkley Books, 1986.
- Epstein, Edward Jay. News from nowhere. New York: Vintage Books, 1973.
- Fallows, James. Breaking the News: How the media undermine American democracy. New York: Vintage, 1997.
- Franklin, Jon Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction, New York: Plume, 1994.
- Gans, Herbert J. Deciding What's News. New York: Pantheon, 1979.
- Gitlin, Todd. The whole world is watching: Mass media and the making and unmaking of the new left, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980.
- Goffman, Erving. Frame analysis: an essay on the organization of experience. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.
- Griffith, Sally Foreman. William Allen White & the Emporia Gazette. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Halberstam, David. The Powers That Be. New York: Dell, 1979.
- Herman, Edward, and Noam Chomsky. Manufacturing Consent. New York: Pantheon, 1988.
- Hersh, Seymour. Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to
Abu Ghraib. New York:Harper Collins, 2005.
- Horan, James David. Matthew Brady, Historian with a Camera. New York: Crown, 1955.
- Juergens, George. Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966.
- Kalb, Marvin. One Scandalous Story: Clinton, Lewinsky & 13 days that tarnished American journalism. New York: Free Press, 2001.
- Knight, Oliver, ed. I Protest: Selected Disquisitions of E.W. Scripps. Madison: University of Wisconsin Prss, 1966.
- Kuhn, Thomas S. The structure of scientific revolutions, 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
- Lee, Martin A., and Norman Solomon. Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media. New York: Lyle Stuart, 1991.
- Levy, Leonard. Emergence of a Free Press. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
- Lippmann, Walter. Public Opinion. New York: Macmillan, 1922.
- Lutz, William. Doublespeak. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
- Mailer, Norman. The Armies of the Night. New York: Signet, 1968.
- Mander, Jerry. Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. New York: Quill, 1978.
- McChesney, Robert W. Corporate media and the threat to democracy. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1997.
- McCluhan, Marshall. The Medium is the Message. New York: Bantam, 1967.
- McPhee, John. The Control of Nature, New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989.
- Merrill, John C. The Elite Press. Pitman, 1968.
- Motavalli, John. Bamboozled at the Revolution: How Big Media Lost Billions in the Battle for the Internet. New York: Viking, 2002.
- Noelle-Neumann, Elisabeth. The Spiral of Silence. Public Opinion - Our Social Skin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
- Paine, Thomas. Common Sense.
- Parenti, Michael. Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.
- Park, Robert.Society. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1955.
- Rammelkamp, Julian S. Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- Ross, Robert W. So It Was True: The American Protestant Press and the Nazi Persecution of the Jews. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980.
- Shepard, Richard F. The Paper's Paper: A reporter's journey through the archives of The New York Times. New York: Random House, 1996.
- Shilts, Randy. And the band played on: Politics, people and the AIDS epidemic. New York: St. Martins Press, 1987.
- Sieber, Fredrick, Theodore Peterson and Wilbur Schramm. Four Theories of the Press. Urbana:University of Illinois Press, 1963.
- Sims, Norman, and Mark Kramer, eds. Literary Journalism. New York: Ballantine, 1995.
- Small, William. To Kill a Messenger. New York: Hastings House, 1970.
- Stephens, Robert O. Hemingway's Nonfiction: The Public Voice. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.
- Swanberg, W.A. Citizen Hearst. New York: Scribner's, 1961.
- Swanberg, W.A. Luce and His Empire. New York: Scribner, 1972.
- Talese, Gay. The Kingdom and the Power. New American Library, 1969.
- Talese, Gay. Writing creative nonfiction: the literature of reality.
- Thomas, Helen. Front Row at the White House. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
- Thompson, Hunter S. Fear and loathing in Las Vegas.
- Thoreau, Henry David. Civil disobedience.
- Walsh, Justin E. To Print the News and Raise Hell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.
- Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's Men.
- Whorf, Benjamin L. Language, Thought and Reality. ed. J.B. Carroll, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1956.
- Wilson, Edward O. The Diversity of Life. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.
- Wolfe, Tom. The New Journalism. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
- Wolfe, Tom. A Man in Full. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
- Woodward, Bob, and Carl Bernstein. The Final Days. New York: Avon, 1976.
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