Ruth Gruber, born in to a Jewish American family in 1911, was drawn to adventure and driven to fight injustice throughout her eventful seven-decade career as a journalist.
Foreign correspondents
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Author:Arato, RonaSummary: - Author:Cohen, DeborahSummary:
Married foreign correspondents John and Frances Gunther intimately understood that it isn't only impersonal, economic forces that propel history, bringing readers so close to the front lines of history that they could feel how...
- Author:Hilsum, LindseySummary:
Random House presents the audiobook edition of In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, written and read by Lindsey Hilsum. ** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ** 'It has always seemed to me that what I write about is...
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Author:WENDE, HamiltonSummary:No journey ever takes you exactly where you want to go, and all travellers one day find themselves in a place they did not expect to be. In searching for the world I ended up all too often getting caught in the space that exists between...
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Author:Brown, PatrickSummary:Fascinating, revelatory, and powerful, Butterfly MindM is a memorable work from a renowned reporter on the front line of history. In this memoir, award-winning journalist Patrick Brown weaves together three stories: the first is Brown's...
- Author:Gorani, HalaSummary:
Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting anchor and correspondent with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. What is it like to have no...
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Author:Farnsworth, ElizabethSummary:Weaving her childhood experiences of loss with memories from her journalist experiences reporting from danger zones like Cambodia and Iraq, Farnsworth explores how she came to cover mass death and disaster.
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Author:Ayed, NahlahSummary:CBC Middle East correspondent and Palestinian-Canadian Nahlah Ayed writes with insight and first-hand knowledge of the myriad ways in which the Arab people have fought against oppression and loss. Ayed was born to Palestinian refugee...
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Author:Brenner, MarieSummary:Now a major motion picture starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci, and Jamie Dornan, A Private War is the story of legendary war correspondent Marie Colvin, who died in 2012 while covering the Syrian civil war. In February 2012, Marie...
