In the powerful travel-writing tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski and V.S. Naipaul, a haunting memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in one of the world's unhappiest countries. ### From Booklist _Starred Review_ Sundaram left the calm, logical world of mathematics and a job
The Story: A Reporter's Journey
โ Scribed by Miller, Judith
- Book ID
- 108644349
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 471 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781476716015
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โฆ Synopsis
Star reporter for The New York Times , the world's most powerful newspaper; foreign correspondent in some of the most dangerous fields; Pulitzer winner; longest jailed correspondent for protecting her sources, Judith Miller is highly respected and controversial. In this memoir, she turns her reporting skills on herself with the intensity of her professional vocation.
Judy Miller grew up near the Nevada atomic proving ground. She got a job at the New York Times after a suit by women employees about discrimination at the paper and went on to cover national politics, head the paper's bureau in Cairo, and serve as deputy editor in Paris and then deputy at the powerful Washington bureau. She reported on terrorism and the rise of fanatical Islam in the Middle East and on secret biological weapons plants and programs in Iraq, Iran, and Russia. She covered an administration traumatized by 9/11 and an anthrax attack three weeks later. Miller shared a...
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