Search Results: Nonfiction/Reportage from The Brooklyn Bookman

BLAKE, Heidi: From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West. New York, Mulholland Books, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 324 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Russia-International Affairs / True Crime. Book and jacket condition: Fine. A gently-used copy with a jacket in first-rate condition with clean pages. Illustrated throughout with pertinent photos of the principle actors. A superb nonfiction thriller detailing the Putin regime's war on its enemies and dissidents at home and abroad. ISBN: 9780316417235

SCHECTER, Danny: News Dissector: Passions, Pieces and Polemics, 1960-2000. New York, Akashic Books, 2001. First Printing. Softcover, 297 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Reportage, American-Twentieth Century / Collected Articles & Essays. Condition: Very Good. Gently used copy with a slight trace of sticker pull on the front cover. Slight bumping to the top corners. Otherwise a copy in near-fine condition with clean, unmarked pages. A collection of articles and writings by the internationally-acclaimed progressive muckraking journalist. ISBN: 1888451203

KENNEDY, Randy: Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New York. New York, St. Martin's Griffin, 2004. Softcover, 226 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / New York City-Description & Travel / Subways – New York City / New York City Subway – History & Anecdotes. Condition: Very Good. Book copy is in gently-used, near first-rate condition with unmarked pages. This book gives a fascinating account of one of the world's most famous of transportation systems – the New York City Subway – as told through "an extended tour of this storied subterranean land." Included in this account are the movers, the denizens, the shakers, the crazies – and yes, even the wildlife – that have placed a unique stamp of the transportation system of the City that Never Sleeps. ISBN: 0312324340

CHRISTMAN, Henry M. (Editor): Walt Whitman's New York: A Collection of Walt Whitman's Journalism Celebrating New York from Manhattan to Montauk. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1963. Hardcover with dust jacket, 188 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Essays, Journalism & Reportage – New York City and Long Island, 19th Century / Walt Whitman, 1819-1892. Book & jacket condition: Very Good / Good Minus. Book copy encompassed by reddish-brown boards with gold lettering on the spine. Light sunning to the pages but all readable, unmarked and clean. Jacket itself has corners price-clipped with a damp-stain at the upper interior front flap. Some chipping to the central extremities of the spine. Otherwise a dust wrapper in decent condition. A collection of the famed American poet's essays and reportage concerning his beloved New York in the early 19th century.

BENNETT, Alan: Writing Home. London & Boston, Faber & Faber, 1997. Originally published in 1994. Paperback, 634 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Essays & Reviews / Memoir & Autobiography / Writers & Playwrights – UK – Alan Bennett, b. 1934. Condition: Good. Former owner's inscription found on the front cover's reverse. Some normal age-toning to the pages yet unmarked and clean. A couple of small tears to the advertisement back pages. First rate,decent copy overall. "Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights...includes Bennett's introduction to his Oscar-nominated screenplay for The Madness of King George and his more recent diaries, bringing Writing Home bang up to date." ISBN: 0571191541