Word: journalistic
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Merle Miller is a novelist, journalist and author of the 1974 bestseller, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman. What is an oral biography? Essentially, it is a dramatic device to present a subject through an arrangement of quotations threshed from hundreds of interviews. The result is documentary folklore in which the leading character-usually described as larger than life-does not stop growing simply because he is dead. Miller's Truman emerged as the most uncommon common man ever to say s.o.b. in the White House. Until, of course, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...winter, plagued by injuries, disagreements with Soviet coaches and challenges from younger men. In one of the week's more dramatic moments, Alexeyev tried for his third Olympic title, and what would have been a startling comeback. With his permission, TIME Associate Editor BJ. Phillips became the first journalist ever allowed into the warmup room during Olympic weight-lifting competition. Her report...
...journalist and a scholar, Bell was a founding member of the journal The Public Interest, and has authored such works as "The End of Ideology," "The Coming of Post-Industrial Society" and "The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism...
...left's turn. Members of the Ejército Popular de Liberación Faribundo Martí, the most active guerrilla group, executed 17 former members of the notorious paramilitary organization ORDEN in the village of San Francisco Morazán. Said a San Salvador journalist: "If you are not on the leftists' death list, you are surely on the rightists' list. There is no middle ground in this country...
Flush with success, the jaded journalist tried to become the budding biographer. He went to his editor at Harper's and offered to turn the article into a book. The editor loved the idea. The people who published books at Harper's, however...