From Dan Jenkins--one of America's most respected and acclaimed sportswriters and author of the bestselling novels "Semi-Tough" and "Dead Solid Perfect"--comes a colorful, sentimental, hilarious, and cantankerous memoir about his lifelong journey through the world of sports.

"Sometimes, I envy my own childhood," says Dan Jenkins. Many can say that about Dan's whole life. In "His Ownself," we follow him from his youth in Texas, where being a sports fan meant understanding a lot about religion, heroes, and drinking; to his first job at the "Fort Worth Press" working alongside all-time journalistic greats like Blackie Sherrod and Bud Shrake; to the glory days of "Sports Illustrated." One of a handful of writers to establish "SI" as the most important sports magazine ever, Dan refocused the magazine's college football coverage and covered the game's greatest players and coaches. Beyond football, Dan is in the conversation about the best golf writers of all time. Having covered every Masters, U.S. Open, PGA, and British Open for the past fifty years, he takes us behind the scenes to capture the drama--as well as the humor--of these tournaments as he brings us up close and personal with the likes of Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods.
From his friendship and the rounds played with Ben Hogan, to the stories swapped with New York's elite, to the corporate expense accounts abused, Dan lets loose on his experiences in journalism, sports, and showbiz. An honest, one-of-a-kind look at politics, hypocrites, political correctness, the past, the present, Hollywood, money, and athletes, this is a sports fan's dream book. It's a touching, laugh-out-loud tribute to the romanticism of sportswriting and the glory days of sports, told straight from the mouth of the man who saw it all his ownself.

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Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as 'one of our best living critics. He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficult subjects.' Bowie was Marshal Foch Professor of French at Oxford (1992-2002) and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (2002-2006). He received numerous honours, was invited to speak all over the world, and in 2001 won the international Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism for his Proust Among the Stars. The essays and reviews in these volumes have never before been brought together. Ranging across literature, art, music, and psychoanalysis, they offer fresh insights into topics tackled in Bowie's books, and discuss quite new ones. Volume I, Dreams of Knowledge, presents essays on memory, Proust, modern poetry (Mallarme, Valery, Eluard), and psychoanalysis. Bowie explores the uncertainties of knowledge, the relationship between fantasy and experience, and the ways great writers, artists and thinkers represent these.

Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as 'one of our best living critics. He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficult subjects.' Bowie was Marshal Foch Professor of French at Oxford (1992-2002) and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (2002-2006). He received numerous honours, was invited to speak all over the world, and in 2001 won the international Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism for his Proust Among the Stars. The essays and reviews in these volumes have never before been brought together. Ranging across literature, art, music, and psychoanalysis, they offer fresh insights into topics tackled in Bowie's books, and discuss quite new ones. Volume II, Song Man, presents shorter pieces, including Bowie's essays on song and music criticism. They explore important cultural issues such as anti-Semitism, images of gender, and ideas of the nation.

"A landmark in the field of writing about journalism." The Nation
The classic inside story of The New York Times, the most prestigious, and perhaps the most powerful, of all American newspapers. Bestselling author Talese lays bare the secret internal intrigues behind the tradition of front page exposes in a story as gripping as a work of fiction and as immediate as today's headlines.

Das Lehrbuch verortet PR als Lehr- und Forschungsbereich aus einer primar kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Ziel ist es, Leserinnen und Leser mit den zentralen Grundbegriffen, Theorien und Modellen der PR sowie dem aktuellen Stand der wissenschaftlichen Reflexion vertraut zu machen. Neben der Auseinandersetzung mit unterschiedlichen disziplinaren Perspektiven, theoretischen Ansatzen und Modellen werden einzelne Tatigkeitsfelder, Arbeitsbereiche und Instrumente sowie die Konzeption strategischer PR naher beleuchtet. In dem Band werden PR-relevantes Wissen zusammengefuhrt sowie zentrale Begrifflichkeiten und Konzepte der PR-Forschung geklart. Anhand kompakter Leseabschnitte, ausgewahlter Leseproben einschlagiger Standardwerke sowie von Fallbeispielen aus der Praxis soll Studierenden der Einstieg in die kommunikationswissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit PR erleichtert werden. Daruber hinaus richtet sich der Band an alle, die sich mit den Auspragungen von PR in der modernen Gesellschaft sowie deren wissenschaftlicher Bearbeitung auseinandersetzen.

Wer berat die Regierung in kommunikativen Fragen und mit welcher Wirkung? Nicola Seitz geht Veranderungen in der staatlichen Kommunikation nach und untersucht im Zeitraum von 1998 bis 2009 den Einfluss von Werbe- und PR-Agenturen auf den politischen Regierungsapparat und den kommunikativen Vermittlungsprozess. Anhand einer dokumentenbasierten Netzwerkanalyse identifiziert sie zentrale Akteure der Branche, die in Interviews umfassende Einblicke in ihre kommunikative Arbeit fur Bundesministerien und ihre Beziehung zum Journalismus geben. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass Kommunikationsdienstleister wenig Einfluss auf die Politik oder die (uberregionale) politische Berichterstattung haben und nur in Ausnahmefallen in die Tagespolitik involviert sind. Stattdessen ersinnen sie Visualisierungen, Bildmotive und verantworten die breite (regionale) Kommunikation von mittel- bis langfristigen politischen Themen.

Lars Guenther analysiert die Grunde fur die jeweilige Berichterstattung uber wissenschaftliche Evidenz von Wissenschaftsjournalisten vor dem Hintergrund des Spannungsverhaltnisses Wissenschaft - Journalismus - OEffentlichkeit. Die Ergebnisse der eigenen Studien, die Erkenntnisse aus Inhaltsanalysen und Befragungen zusammenfassen, verweisen auf die dominante Rolle des Publikums: So machen Journalisten ihre Entscheidung, wie wissenschaftliche Evidenz dargestellt wird, vorrangig davon abhangig, wie stark sie glauben, dass ihre Leser und Zuhoerer erwarten, dass Forschungsergebnisse eher gesichert oder ungesichert prasentiert werden sollen.

An Argentinian epic about dance "This is the story of a man who took part in a dance contest." It is thus that Argentine journalist and author Leila Guerriero opens her book. It tells the most difficult of all epic stories: that of the common man. This is an electrifying work that spans the genres of journalism and fiction. It tells a moving and strangely intimate story about malambo, a traditional dance of the Argentine gauchos, and about the Malambo Festival of Laborde in the southeast of the Argentinian province of Cordoba. It is also about Rodolfo Gonzalez Alcantara, who won the dance competition in 2012. Leila Guerriero is a gifted chronicler. Her internationally acclaimed work A Simple Story was published in Spanish in 2013 and in English in 2017, and now appears in German for the first time, in a translation by Angelica Ammar. First German translation of the impressive chronicle "A foray through life, suffering, sacrifice, silent despair, the dread of loss, solidarity, and glory." (El Pais) "[a] level of excellence: [...] rigorous work, exhaustive research" (Mario Vargas Llosa)

In The Heart of Central New York: Stories of Historic Homer, NY Martin A. Sweeney makes the past come alive through this collection of articles from his column in The Homer News. Through his writing, Sweeney offers readers a glimpse of the excitement he brought to his classrooms by bringing to life the people, events, manners, and mores of the past in a community that is the heart of Central New York State. This compilation represents Sweeney's successful efforts as a public historian in using the press as a tool for generating interest in his community's unique historical identity.With annotations and a touch of humor, this book illustrates for current and emerging public historians how to successfully engage a community in acknowledging their history matters-that the fibers of "microhistory" contribute to the rich tapestry that is county, regional, state, and national history.