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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  1. 1.
    Hiroshima (Vintage)
    by John Hersey
  2. 2.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  5. 5.
    The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version
    by Ida M. Tarbell
  7. 7.
    Ten days that Shook the World (Penguin Classics)
    by John Reed
  11. 11.
    Harvest of Shame
    by Fred W. Friendly
  13. 13.
    The Pentagon Papers
    by George Herring
  15. 15.
    The Souls of Black Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by W. E. B. Du Bois
  16. 16.
    The Best of I.F. Stone
    by I. F. Stone
  18. 18.
    The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
    by Tom Wolfe
  20. 20.
    Eichmann in Jerusalem (Penguin Classics)
    by Hannah Arendt
  21. 21.
    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
  24. 24.
    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
  27. 27.
    Robert Capa: Photographs (Aperture Monograph)
    by Richard Whelan
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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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  35. 35.
    The Fire Next Time
    by James Baldwin
  36. 36.
    Up in the Old Hotel
    by Joseph Mitchell
  37. 37.
    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 Flanner
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    Bright Shining Lie
    by Dalton
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    Wayward Pressman
    by A J Liebling
  48. 48.
    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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