Best American Journalism of the 20th Century

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The following works were chosen as the 20th century’s best American journalism by a panel of experts assembled by the New York University school of journalism. Contains books, magazine articles, television, documentaries, photography etc.

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    Hiroshima (Vintage)
    by John Hersey

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    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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    The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version
    by Ida M. Tarbell

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    Ten days that Shook the World
    by John Reed

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    Mencken Chrestomathy
    by H.L. Mencken

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    Harvest of Shame
    by Fred W. Friendly

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    The Pentagon Papers
    by George C Herring

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    The Best of I.F. Stone
    by I. F. Stone

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    The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
    by Tom Wolfe

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    Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941
    by William L. Shirer

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    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

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    Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
    by Joan Didion

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    The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
    by Tom Wolfe

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    Dispatches
    by Michael Herr

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    The Making of the President 1960
    by Theodore H. White

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    Robert Capa: Photographs
    by Robert Capa

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    Richard Harding Davis -1914

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    The Road Back to Paris (Modern Library)
    by A.J. Liebling

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    The Fire Next Time
    by James Baldwin

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    Up in the Old Hotel
    by Joseph Mitchell

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    The Feminine Mystique
    by Betty Friedan

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    Herblock Gallery, The
    by Herbert Block

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    Fame and Obscurity
    by Gay Talese

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    Paris Journal 1944-1965
    by Janet (Genet) Flanner

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    Bright Shining Lie
    by Dalton

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    Wayward Pressman
    by A J Liebling

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    The Right Stuff
    by Tom Wolfe

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    America comes of middle age;: Columns, 1950-1962
    by Murray Kempton

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    Part of Our Time: Some Monuments and Ruins of the Thirties
    by Murray Kempton

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