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"With the work of reporters under fire worldwide, this year's anthology of National Magazine Award finalists and winners is a timely reminder of the power of journalism. The pieces included here explore the fault lines in American society. Shane Bauer's visceral ""My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard"" (Mother Jones) and Sarah Stillman's depiction of the havoc wreaked on young people's lives when they are put on sex-offender registries (The New Yorker) examine controversial criminal-justice practices. And responses to the shocks of the recent election include Matt Taibbi's irreverent dispatches from the campaign trail (Rolling Stone), George Saunders's transfixing account of Trump's rallies (The New Yorker), and Andrew Sullivan's fears for the future of democracy (New York). In other considerations of the political scene, Jeffrey Goldberg talks through Obama's foreign-policy legacy with the former president (The Atlantic), and Gabriel Sherman analyzes how Roger Ailes's fall sheds light on conservative media (New York). Linking personal stories to the course of history, Nikole Hannah-Jones looks for a school for her daughter in a rapidly changing, racially divided Brooklyn (New York Times Magazine), and Pamela Colloff explores how the 1966 University of Texas Tower mass shooting changed the course of one survivor's life (Texas Monthly). A selection of Rebecca Solnit's Harper's commentary ranges from a writer on death row to the isolation at the heart of conservatism. Becca Rothfeld ponders women waiting on love from the Odyssey to Tinder (Hedgehog Review). Siddhartha Mukherjee depicts the art and agony of oncology (New York Times Magazine). David Quammen ventures to Yellowstone to consider the future of wild places (National Geographic), and Mac McClelland follows a deranged expedition to Cuba in search of the ivory-billed woodpecker (Audubon). The collection concludes with Zandria Robinson's eloquent portrait of her father as reflected in the music he loved (Oxford American)."

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Author:   Sid Holt ,  The American Society of Magazine Editors
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9780231181594

ISBN 10:   0231181590
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   19 December 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Introduction, by Nicholas Thompson, editor in chief, WiredAcknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine EditorsDelusion Is the Thing with Feathers, by Mac McLelland, Audubon: Finalist-Feature WritingWorlds Apart, by Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine: Winner-Public InterestThe Revenge of Roger's Angels, by Gabriel Sherman, New York: Finalist-ReportingThe List, by Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker: Finalist-Public InterestThe Improvisational Oncologist, by Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times Magazine: Finalist-ReportingTrump Days, by George Saunders, The New Yorker: Finalist-Feature WritingPresident Trump, Seriously and Appetite for Destruction and The Fury and Failure of Donald Trump, by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone: Finalist-Columns and CommentaryDemocracies End When They Are Too Democratic, by Andrew Sullivan, New York: Finalist-Essays and CriticismThe Obama Doctrine, by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic: Finalist-ReportingYellowstone: Wild Heart of a Continent, by David Quammen, National Geographic: Finalist-Single-Topic IssueMy Four Months as a Private Prison Guard, by Shane Bauer, Mother Jones: Winner-ReportingBird in a Cage and The Ideology of Isolation and Giantess, by Rebecca Solnit, Harper's Magazine: Winner-Columns and CommentaryLadies in Waiting, by Becca Rothfeld, The Hedgehog Review: Finalist-Essays and CriticismThe Reckoning, by Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly: Finalist-Columns and CommentaryListening for the Country, by Zandria F. Robinson, Oxford American: Finalist-Essays and CriticismPermissionsList of Contributors

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The American Society of Magazine Editors is the principal organization for magazine journalists in the United States. ASME sponsors the National Magazine Awards in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Sid Holt is chief executive of the American Society of Magazine Editors and a former editor at Rolling Stone and Adweek magazines. Nicholas Thompson is the editor in chief of Wired.

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