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. 51.
    America: What Went Wrong?
    by Donald L. Barlett

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  2. 52.
    Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
    by Taylor Branch

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  3. 54.
    The John McPhee Reader
    by John McPhee

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  4. 56.
    Titicut Follies (1967)
    by Frederick Wiseman

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  5. 57.
    Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
    by David Remnick

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  6. 58.
    What It Takes: The Way to the White House
    by Richard Ben Cramer

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    The Fate of the Earth -
    by Jonathan Schell-

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    1,001 Afternoons in Chicago
    by Paul Peditto

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  9. 65.
    Margaret Bourke White
    by Susan Goldman Rubin

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  10. 66.
    Reporting Back: Notes on Journalism
    by Lillian Ross

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    Hodding Carter Jr. - Go For Broke

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    The New Yorker Book of War Pieces
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  13. 72.
    The Executioner's Song
    by Norman Mailer

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  14. 74.
    All the President's Men
    by Bob Woodward

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    John Hersey - Here to Stay

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  16. 76.
    The Earl of Louisiana (Southern Biography Series)
    by A. J. Liebling

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  17. 78.
    Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
    by Melissa Fay Greene

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  18. 81.
    Home Town News: William Allen White and the Emporia Gazette
    by Sally Foreman Griffith

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  19. 83.
    McSorley's Wonderful Saloon
    by Joseph Mitchell

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    Picture
    by Lillian Ross

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  23. 89.
    Rosa Lee
    by Leon Dash

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    Europeans
    by Jane Kramer

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  25. 94.
    Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
    by Frank McCourt

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    Personal History
    by Vincent Sheean

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  28. 98.
    The Selling of the President 1968
    by Joe McGinniss

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  29. 99.
    Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
    by Hunter S. Thompson

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