Lists of Bests: Best American Journalism of the 20th Century http://www.listsofbests.com/list/55712 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. Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:59:00 GMT en-us 0 50 99 50 0 Hiroshima (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18623 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18623"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679721037.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Hersey</div> Silent Spring http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618249060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Carson</div> Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein - Watergate investigation - Washington Post http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020870 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Edward R. Murrow - Battle of Britain - CBS Radio - 1940 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020871 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/568849 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/568849"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0486428214.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ida M. Tarbell</div> Lincoln Steffens - The Shame of the Cities - McClure's - 1902 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020873 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Ten days that Shook the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2708452 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2708452"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141442123.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Reed</div> Mencken Chrestomathy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11220 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11220"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394752090.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H.L. Mencken</div> Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches (A Touchstone book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1097890 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly - McCarthy Investigations - CBS, 1954 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020876 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Harvest of Shame http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/336328 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/336328"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BP86P0.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fred W. Friendly</div> Seymour Hersh - My Lai Investigation - 1969 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020877 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Pentagon Papers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2093 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2093"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/007028380X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George C Herring</div> Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17156 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17156"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0618127496.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077749783_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Agee</div> The Souls of Black Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Hardcover) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1385346 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. E. B. Du Bois</div> The Best of I.F. Stone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3891229 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3891229"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41P1Mwt7oJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by I. F. Stone</div> Eyes on the Prize (TV miniseries, 1987, Henry Hampton) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2470468 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63575 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63575"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553140949.01-AM0TBPF72AOXR._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44924736_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Wolfe</div> The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66445 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66445"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452272793.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Mailer</div> Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575511 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575511"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039881.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hannah Arendt</div> Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23989 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23989"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0801870569.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William L. Shirer</div> In Cold Blood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/325297 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/325297"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507906.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438385_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Truman Capote</div> Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8585 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8585"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374521727.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438179_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Didion</div> The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15908 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15908"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553380583.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Wolfe</div> Dispatches http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18790 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18790"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679735259.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44908650_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Herr</div> The Making of the President 1960 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1371234 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore H. White</div> Robert Capa: Photographs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/507839 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/507839"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0893816906.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Capa</div> Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11207 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11207"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394746163.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056440110_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. Anthony Lukas</div> Richard Harding Davis -1914 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020880 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Dorthy Thompson - Rise of Hitler - Cosmopolitan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020882 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> John Steinbeck - Reports on Okie migrant camp life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020883 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Road Back to Paris (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1235870 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1235870"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679602488.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464851_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.J. Liebling</div> Ernest Hemingway - Reports on the Spanish Civil War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020885 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Face of War by Martha Gellhorn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020886 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Fire Next Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18887 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18887"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/067974472X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192805_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Up in the Old Hotel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76693 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76693"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679746315.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Mitchell</div> The Feminine Mystique http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10963 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10963"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393322572.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Betty Friedan</div> UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED - THE DESIGNED-IN DANGERS OF THE AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020887 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Nader</div> Herblock Gallery, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020888 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herbert Block</div> James Baldwin - Letter from the South - 1959 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020889 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Nick Ut - Photograph of burning girl running from Napalm attack - 1972 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020890 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Pauline Kael - "Trash, Art, and the Movies" - Harper's 1969 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020891 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Fame and Obscurity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/955199 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/955199"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/034546723X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1067917091_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gay Talese</div> Randy Shilts - Report on AIDS - San Francisco Chronicle - 1981-1985 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020892 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Paris Journal 1944-1965 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2057923 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janet (Genet) Flanner</div> Bright Shining Lie http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1593153 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dalton</div> Wayward Pressman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020893 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A J Liebling</div> The Right Stuff http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3298460 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3298460"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11PQI00xwrL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Wolfe</div> America comes of middle age;: Columns, 1950-1962 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020894 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Murray Kempton</div> Part of Our Time: Some Monuments and Ruins of the Thirties http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3798817 <div id="position">51</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Murray Kempton</div>