{"product_id":"the-noise-of-typewriters-9781641772280","title":"The Noise of Typewriters (9781641772280)","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781641772280\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Cloth over boards\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2023\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Encounter Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eW.H. Auden famously wrote: “Poetry makes nothing happen.” Journalism is a different matter. In a brilliant study that is, in part, a memoir of his 40 years as an essayist and critic at \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, Lance Morrow returns to the Age of Typewriters and to the 20th century’s extraordinary cast of characters—statesmen and dictators, saints and heroes, liars and monsters, and the reporters, editors, and publishers who interpreted their deeds. He shows how journalism has touched the history of the last 100 years, has shaped it, distorted it, and often proved decisive in its outcomes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLord Beaverbrook called journalism “the black art.” Morrow considers the case of Walter Duranty, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times’\u003c\/i\u003e  Moscow correspondent who published a Pulitzer Prize-winning series praising Stalin just at the moment when Stalin imposed mass starvation upon the people of Ukraine and the North Caucasus in order to enforce the collectivization of Soviet agriculture. Millions died.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Hersey’s \u003ci\u003eHiroshima\u003c\/i\u003e, on the other hand, has been all but sanctified—called the 20th century’s greatest piece of journalism. Was it? Morrow examines the complex moral politics of Hersey’s reporting, which the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e first published in 1946.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Noise of Typewriters\u003c\/i\u003e is, among other things, an intensely personal study of an age that has all but vanished. Morrow is the son of two journalists who got their start covering Roosevelt and Truman. When Morrow and Carl Bernstein were young, they worked together as dictation typists at the \u003ci\u003eWashington Star\u003c\/i\u003e (a newspaper now extinct). Bernstein had dedicated \u003ci\u003eChas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41530720354437,"sku":"PR385725","price":78.7,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/the-noise-of-typewriters-9781641772280","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}