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Best American Journalism of the 20th Century

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. Hiroshima (Vintage)
by John Hersey
  
2. Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
  
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 Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein - Watergate investigation - Washington Post  
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 Edward R. Murrow - Battle of Britain - CBS Radio - 1940  
5. The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version
by Ida M. Tarbell
  
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 Lincoln Steffens - The Shame of the Cities - McClure's - 1902  
7. Ten days that Shook the World
by John Reed
  
8. Mencken Chrestomathy
by H.L. Mencken
  
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 Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches (A Touchstone book)  
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 Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly - McCarthy Investigations - CBS, 1954  
12. Harvest of Shame
by Fred W. Friendly
  
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 Seymour Hersh - My Lai Investigation - 1969  
14. The Pentagon Papers
by George C Herring
  
15. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South
by James Agee
  
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 The Souls of Black Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Hardcover)
by W. E. B. Du Bois
  
17. The Best of I.F. Stone
by I. F. Stone
  
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 Eyes on the Prize (TV miniseries, 1987, Henry Hampton)  
19. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe
  
20. The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
by Norman Mailer
  
21. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics)
by Hannah Arendt
  
22. Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941
by William L. Shirer
  
23. In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
  
24. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
by Joan Didion
  
25. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
by Tom Wolfe
  
26. Dispatches
by Michael Herr
  
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 The Making of the President 1960
by Theodore H. White
  
28. Robert Capa: Photographs
by Robert Capa
  
29. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
by J. Anthony Lukas
  
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 Richard Harding Davis -1914  
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 Dorthy Thompson - Rise of Hitler - Cosmopolitan  
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 John Steinbeck - Reports on Okie migrant camp life  
33. The Road Back to Paris (Modern Library)
by A.J. Liebling
  
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 Ernest Hemingway - Reports on the Spanish Civil War  
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 The Face of War by Martha Gellhorn  
36. The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
  
37. Up in the Old Hotel
by Joseph Mitchell
  
38. The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
  
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 UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED - THE DESIGNED-IN DANGERS OF THE AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE
by Ralph Nader
  
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 Herblock Gallery, The
by Herbert Block
  
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 James Baldwin - Letter from the South - 1959  
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 Nick Ut - Photograph of burning girl running from Napalm attack - 1972  
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 Pauline Kael - "Trash, Art, and the Movies" - Harper's 1969  
44. Fame and Obscurity
by Gay Talese
  
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 Randy Shilts - Report on AIDS - San Francisco Chronicle - 1981-1985  
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 Paris Journal 1944-1965
by Janet (Genet) Flanner
  
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 Bright Shining Lie
by Dalton
  
48.
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 Wayward Pressman
by A J Liebling
  
49. 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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