Chasing Hope
A Reporter's Life
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
Format: Book
Description: pages cm
"From New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and bestselling author Nicholas D. Kristof, an intimate and gripping memoir about a life in journalism"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
A plane crash -- Overthrowing the patriarchy, in 8th grade -- A family of spies -- A glimpse of journalism -- A wimpy kid -- High school rabble-rouser -- Faking it at Harvard -- From Oxford to the Khyber Pass -- "I will shoot you." -- Making mistakes in Arabic -- Abe Rosenthal makes an offer -- Cub reporter -- Finding Sheryl...and a job abroad -- My soulmate -- How little we knew -- Witness to a massacre -- We become "hoodlums" -- The prize -- An escaped felon -- Frequenting a brothel -- Journey into a war -- "We have to kill them" -- "Do they play baseball in America?" -- I become an editor -- I begin my column -- The Iraq War -- Covering genocide -- Where's the line? -- What I learned from genocide -- The Arab Spring -- Covering genocide and poverty left me an optimist -- A day in the life of a columnist -- When reporting haunts you -- Women hold up half the sky -- Covering Donald Trump -- Politics? "Don't do it." -- My hat in the ring -- Navigating a campaign -- "To fill a person's heart."
Subjects:
Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959-
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Journalism -- United States.
Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959-
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Journalism -- United States.
ISBN:
9780593536568
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
Main (Downtown) | Nonfiction | Just Ordered | |
BIOGRAPHY Kristof, Nicholas | Sandhills Indoors | New, Biography | Coming Soon |
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