The Mammoth Book of Journalism: 101 Masterpieces from the Finest Writers and Reporters, Including Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Martha Gell

by Lewis, Jon E.

• ISBN13: 9780786711697
• ISBN10: 0786711698
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group
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Summary

While it's said that journalism is the first draft of history, The Mammoth Book of Journalism demonstrates that sometimes the reporters have outdone the historians in analyzing great events and bringing them to life. Veteran editor and former journalist Jon E. Lewis has chosen the best articles, editorials, reviews, commentary, interviews, and reportage for this unique anthology, which spans from Charles Dickens on "Execution by Guillotine" and Mark Twain on "Americans Abroad" to contemporary reporting of the first McDonald's in Moscow and the funeral of Princess Diana. Covering such diverse topics as war, politics, sports, disasters, crime, fashion, humor, civil rights, and culture, this unique encyclopedic collection features such award-winning and event-making writers as H. L. Mencken, Martha Gellhorn, Studs Terkel, William Shirer, Harrison Salisbury, Tom Wolfe, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, John Hersey, and many more. Whether with the humor of P. J. O'Rourke, the film criticism of Pauline Kael, the observations of Bill Byrson, the book reviews of Dorothy Parker, or the political analysis of I. F. Stone, The Mammoth Book of Journalism will delight and inform not only the student of the modern newspaper but also lovers of history-in-the-making.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	ix
CHARLES DICKENS,
A Man is Guillotined in Rome, 1845	1	(5)
CHARLES DICKENS,
A Sleep to Startle Us, 1852	6	(9)
WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL,
The Battle of Balaclava, 1854	15	(13)
WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL,
Moscow Goes to Town, 1856	28	(8)
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA,
Explosion Aboard the Great Eastern, 1859	36	(4)
GEORGE W. SMALLEY,
The Contest in Maryland, 1862	40	(16)
MARK TWAIN,
The American Assault on the Pyramids, 1869	56	(7)
ARCHIBALD FORBES,
The Suppression of the Paris Commune, 1871	63	(8)
JOE MELVIN,
Extermination of the Kelly Gang, 1880	71	(8)
GEORGE WARRINGTON STEEVENS,
The Attack on the Atbara, 1898	79	(4)
STEPHEN CRANE,
Marines Signalling Under Fire at Guantanamo, 1899	83	(7)
J.E. DILLON,
"Ah, You Cowards": The Second Trial of Dreyfus, 1899	90	(5)
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL,
Escape, 1900	95	(12)
JACK LONDON,
The Story of an Eye-Witness: The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906	107	(7)
G. WARD-PRICE,
My Zeppelin Crash, 1910	114	(4)
PHILIP GIBES,
The Siege of Sidney Street, 1923	118	(4)
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS,
Saw German Army Roll On Like Fog, 1914	122	(3)
HENRY G. WALES,
Death Comes to Mata Hari, 1917	125	(3)
JOHN REED,
A Day That Shook the World, 1919	128	(9)
H.J. GREENWALL,
Red Terror in Berlin, 1919	137	(4)
ARTHUR RANSOMS,
A Trip Up the Volga, 1921	141	(4)
KIRKE L. SIMPSON,
Bugles Sound Taps for Warrior's Requiem, 1921	145	(6)
WEBB MILLER,
Landru is Executed, 1922	151	(3)
GRANTLAND RICE,
Notre Dame's "Four Horsemen", 1924	154	(6)
J.J. JONES,
Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1927	160	(4)
DOROTHY PARKER,
A Book of Great Short Stories, 1927	164	(3)
ELLIOTT V. BELL,
24 October 1929 - Wall Street Crashes!, 1929	167	(5)
CLAUD COCKBURN,
Interview with Al Capone, 1930	172	(3)
JOHN DOS PASSOS,
Red Day on Capitol Hill, 1931	175	(4)
D. SEFTON DELMER,
Reichstag Fire, 1933	179	(3)
WESTBROOK PEGLER,
Are Wrestlers People?, 1934	182	(4)
H.R.S. PHILPOTT,
The Gresford Colliery Disaster, 1934	186	(5)
JOSEPH COOKMAN,
Louisiana's Kingfisk Lies in State, 1935	191	(4)
JONATHAN MITCHELL,
Joe Louis Never Smiles, 1935	195	(5)
JOHN STEINBECK,
Death in the Dust, 1936	200	(5)
MARTHA GELLHORN,
Justice at Night, 1936	205	(7)
GEORGE ORWELL,
The Brookers, 1937	212	(7)
ERNEST HEMINGWAY,
The Loyalists, 1938	219	(7)
JOHN GUNTHER,
A Portrait of Hitler, 1940	226	(14)
WILLIAM L. SHIRER,
France Surrenders, 1940	240	(5)
EDWARD R. MURROW,
A Report During the Blitz, 1940	245	(3)
O.D. GALLAGHER,
The Loss of Repulse, 1941	248	(11)
ERNIE PYLE,
The Death of Captain Waskow, 1944	259	(3)
WILLIAM L. LAURENCE,
A Mushroom Cloud, 1945	262	(3)
JOHN HERSEY,
Hiroshima, 1945	265	(5)
HOMER BIGART,
Hope This is the Last One, Baby, 1945	270	(4)
GEORGE ORWELL,
"The Moon Under Water", 1946	274	(3)
MAURICE FAGENGS,
Sentence Day at Nuremberg, 1946	277	(4)
JOHN HISLOP,
The Grand National: The View from the Saddle, 1947	281	(3)
JIMMY CANNON,
Club Fighter, 1948	284	(10)
JAMES MORRIS,
Everest Conquered, 1953,	294	(6)
ALISTAIR COOKS,
Billy Graham in New York, 1955	300	(7)
DONALD EDGAR,
The Wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier, 1956	307	(3)
D. SEFTON DELMER,
The Revolution in Hungary, 1956	310	(2)
SAM WHITE,
Picasso, 75, Gets a Surprise Present, 1956	312	(3)
BOB ADIE,
The Sportswriter, 1957	315	(3)
RELMAN MORIN,
Little Rock - Violence at Central High, 1957	318	(3)
R.M. MACCOLL,
Woman Stoned to Death, 1958	321	(4)
EDWIN TETLOW,
Inside the Cuban Revolution, 1958	325	(13)
HUMPHREY TYLER,
Eye-witness at Sharpeville, 1960	338	(3)
MARK ARNOLD-FORSTER,
The Berlin Wall, 1961	341	(5)
GLORIA STEINEM,
I Was a Playboy Bunny, 1963	346	(7)
MERRIMAN SMITH,
Kennedy Assassinated, 1963	353	(2)
TOM WOLFE,
The Magic Bus, 1964	355	(6)
DAVID LEITCH,
Norman Mailer's Night Out, 1965	361	(6)
NORMAN MAILER,
A Vote for Bobby K, 1965	367	(3)
JOHN CROSBY,
London, The Most Exciting City in the World, 1965	370	(7)
MAUREEN CLEAVE,
John Lennon "We're More Popular Than Jesus Now", 1966	377	(6)
DAVID MILLER,
England Win the World Cup, 1966	383	(5)
WILLIAM REES-MOGG,
Who Breaks a Butterfly on a Wheel?, 1967	388	(4)
MICHAEL HERR,
Airmobility, Dig It, 1967-8	392	(7)
RICHARD GOTT,
US Intelligence Agent in at Che Guevara's Death, 1967	399	(3)
ALISTAIR COOKS,
A Mule Cortege for the Apostle of the Poor, 1968	402	(4)
JOHN FETTERMAN,
P.F.C. Gibson Comes Home, 1968	406	(6)
GREIL MARCUS,
Woodstock, 1969	412	(5)
SEYMOUR M. HERSH,
My Lai: Lieutenant Accused of Murdering 109 Civilians, 1969	417	(4)
SALLY BEAUMAN,
But the People are Beautiful, 1971	421	(13)
HUNTER S. THOMPSON,
Fear and Loathing at the 1972 Republican Convention, 1972	434	(5)
CLIVE JAMES,
Drained Crystals, 1973	439	(3)
PETER JENKINS,
Miss Woods Puts Her Foot In It, 1973	442	(3)
SIMON WINCHESTER,
Rattle of a Broken Man, 1974	445	(4)
SYDNEY H. SCHANBERG,
An American Reporter's Brief Brush with Arrest and Death, 1975	449	(2)
GEORGE FRANK,
A Member of the Manson Gang Tries to Kill President Ford, 1975	451	(2)
JILL TWEEDIS,
Letter from a Fainthearted Feminist, 1981	453	(4)
MAX HASTINGS,
Max Hastings Leads the Way: The First Man into Port Stanley, 1982	457	(7)
ROBERT FISK,
"It was the Christians": Massacre at Chatila Refugee Camp, 1982	464	(4)
GORE VIDAL,
A Yankee in Outer Mongolia, 1982	468	(8)
MARTIN AMIS,
The World According to Spielberg,1982	476	(6)
JAMES CAMERON,
Sacred Blues, 1982	482	(3)
SIMON HOGGART,
Britannia Runs the Shop, 1983	485	(8)
IAN JACK,
Modern Life is Rubbish, 1985	493	(6)
I. VEDENEEVA,
The Ultimate Step, 1989	499	(9)
MARY ANN GWINN,
A Deadly Call of the Wild, 1989	508	(4)
JIM MURRAY,
One Man's Sun-baked Theory on Athletic Supremacy, 1989	512	(4)
JONATHAN STEELS,
McDonald's In Moscow, 1990	516	(2)
JOHN SIMPSON,
The Bombing of Baghdad, 1991	518	(8)
MARK FRITZ,
Back with a Vengeance: Refugee Rebels Battle to Conquer Hell, 1994	526	(3)
JON KRAKAUER,
Death at the Top of the World, 1997	529	(3)
JONATHAN FREEDLAND,
The Homecoming, 1997	532	(2)
JOHN F. BURNS,
An Afghan Village, Destroyed, 1997	534	(5)
ROBERT FISK,
The clock said 7.55 - precisely the time the missle struck, 2003	539	(2)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	541