Product Description: In 1927, a teenager challenged himself and two friends to an unusual test:  he dared each of them to start keeping a diary, and they’d see who could keep his the longest. In 1995—long after he’d won the contest (68 years and more than 22 million words later, to be exact—Edward Robb Ellis published this richly entertaining book, drawn from his Guinness World Record-recognized diary...read more

A senior foreign correspondent for NPR describes the events in Baghdad, along with her personal experiences, during the Iraq War. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

A young Latina journalist recounts her four-year, twelve-nation tour of the Communist bloc during her education at the University of Texas, a period during which she volunteered at a Moscow children's shelter, edited propaganda for the Chinese communist party, worked as a belly dancer in Cuba, and more. Original.

The war correspondent for NPR describes the events in Baghdad, along with her experiences, during the Iraq War of 2003.

The war correspondent for NPR describes the events in Baghdad, along with her experiences, during the Iraq War.

A precurser to the author's best-selling The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich describes the harrowing Nazi rise to power in Germany during the second half of the 1930s and profiles Hitler's complex personality.

America's most prolific diarist offers a generous selection from his journals, including reflections on his exchanges with such luminaries as Louis Armstrong and Eleanor Roosevelt and countless ordinary people, and his celebrated stunts as a reporter.