Journalism: Reading List
Nonfiction
 All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists by
Terry Gross
 All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
 All The President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
 America’s Mom: The Life, Lessons, and Legacy of Ann Landers by Rick Kogan
 The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism by Kevin Kerrane
and Ben Yagoda (editors)
 The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
 Ava’s Man by Rick Bragg
 Be True to Your School: A Diary of 1964 by Bob Greene
 Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard
Goldberg
 Blood Libel: The Inside Story of General Ariel Sharon’s History-Making Suit
Against Time Magazine by Uri Dan
 The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
 Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse
 Brinkley’s Beat: People, Places, and Events that Shaped My Time by David
Brinkley
 Completely MAD: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine by Maria
Reidelbach
 Deadlines and Datelines by Dan Rather
 A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town’s Struggle for
Redemption by Dina Temple-Raston
 Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why: True Stories of Miraculous
Endurance and Sudden Death by Laurence Gonzales
 Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed
America by Erik Larson
 Dispatches by Michael Herr
 Dispatches From the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by
Anderson Cooper
 Drew Pearson Diaries: 1949-1959 by Tyler Abell (ed.)
 E.W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers by Gerald J. Baldasty
 Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 by Hunter S. Thompson
 Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
 Flirting with Danger: Confessions of a Reluctant War Reporter by Siobhan
Darrow
 Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America’s
Most Scandalous President by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
 The Franchise: A History of Sports Illustrated Magazine by Michael
MacCambridge
 Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger
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Friendly Fire: The Remarkable Story of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq, Rescued
by an Italian Secret Service Agent, and Shot by U.S. Forces by Giuliana Sgrena
From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years with National Geographic by
Thomas B. Canby
Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times by Helen Thomas
Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked
Professional Sports by Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada
The General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and Charles
Dana by Harry J. Maihafer
A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures by Ben Bradlee
The Good Times by Russell Baker
The Great American Magazine: An Inside History of Life by Loudon Wainwright
Growing Up by Russell Baker
Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words by John Man
Hate Mail from Cheerleaders: And Other Adventures from the Life of Reilly by
Rick Reilly
Helen Steiner Rice: Ambassador of Sunshine by Ronald Pollitt and Virginia
Wiltse
Henry and Clare: An Intimate Portrait of the Luces by Ralph G. Martin
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Henry R. Luce: A Political Portrait of the Man Who Created the American
Century by Robert E. Herzstein
Hold On, Mr. President by Sam Donaldson
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy
League by Ron Suskind
I’ll Always Have Paris: A Memoir by Art Buchwald
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by
Truman Capote
In Search of History: A Personal Adventure by Theodore H. White
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children by Katherine
Paterson
Jim Murray: An Autobiography by Jim Murray
Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg by Christopher Ogden
A Life on the Road by Charles Kuralt
Lincoln’s Journalist: John Hay’s Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860-1864
by Michael Burlingame (ed.)
Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 Years in the World’s War
Zones by Peter Arnett
Luce and His Empire by W.A. Swanberg
A Man from Maine by Edward William Bok
The Man Who was Vogue: The Life and Times of Condé Nast by Caroline
Seebohm
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A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl by
Mariane Pearl
The Model Man: A Life of Edward William Bok by Hans Krabbendam
Muckraking!: The Journalism that Changed America by Judith and William
Serrin (editors)
Murrow: His Life and Times by A.M. Sperber
Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War and the Aftermath as Seen by NPR’s
Correspondent Anne Garrels by Anne Garrels
Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Old Friends by Tracy Kidder
The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since
9/11 by Ron Suskind
The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s
Dilemma by Alex Kotlowitz
Personal History by Katharine Graham
A Place in the News: From the Women’s Pages to the Front Page by Kay Mills
The Pulitzer Diaries: Inside America’s Greatest Prize by John Hohenberg
The Pulitzer Prize: The Inside Story of America’s Most Prestigious Award by J.
Douglas Bates
The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear
Reactor by Ken Silverstein
A Reporter’s Life by Walter Cronkite
Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It by
Mike Hoyt, John Palattella and Columbia Journalism Review
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Rupert Murdoch by Jerome Tuccille
School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School by Edward
Humes
A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bobby Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers by
John Feinstein
Sincerely, Andy Rooney by Andrew A. Rooney
Tell Them I Didn’t Cry: A Young Journalist’s Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in
Iraq by Jackie Spinner and Jenny Spinner
Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt
Tell Them I Didn’t Cry: A Young Journalist’s Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in
Iraq by Jackie Spinner
This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV by Bob Schieffer
Time: D-Day, 24 Hours that Saved the World by the editors of Time Magazine
Transition Game: How Hoosiers Went Hip-Hop by L. Jon Wertheim
Treason: How a Russian Spy Led an American Journalist to a U.S. Double Agent
by Bill Powell
Uphill Walkers: Memoir of a Family by Madeleine Blais
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Who Killed CBS?: The Undoing of America’s Number One News Network by
Peter J. Boyer
Winning Pulitzers: The Stories Behind Some of the Best News Coverage of Our
Time by Karen Rothmyer
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
Any titles by Molly Ivins
Fiction
 The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
 The Fabulist: A Novel by Stephen Glass
 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American
Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
 The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams by Darcy Frey
 A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
Articles
 “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” by Gay Talese (Esquire, April 1966)
 “The Silent Season of the Hero” by Guy Talese (Esquire, July 1966)