Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007. 432 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "The reporter who filed the last dispatch before falling with Custer at his "last stand" against the Sioux. The Honolulu bureau chief who looked up from his breakfast table to see Japanese planes flying low and called San Francisco, managing to dictate a single paragraph before all communications to the mainland were cut. The Saigon bureau chief who served Coca-Cola and pound cake to three North Vietnamese soldiers before writing the bulletin announcing the fall of Saigon. These are but a few of the gripping and dramatic stories reported first by the Associated Press in the past century and a half. In How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else, the Associated Press throws open its archives and invites readers into its news bureaus and out into the field to witness first hand its groundbreaking reporting on presidents, elections, wars, civil rights, trials and crimes, disasters, business, and major sports events. The book conveys, through personal accounts, archival materials, interviews, and Pulitzer-Prize-winning photographs, how the AP became the world's largest news organization and how it continues to play a vital role in providing the news to the American and international press. Breaking News makes an original and significant contribution to journalism history by shedding light on the nation's primary newswire service, one that reaches one half of the world daily and upon which virtually every serious newspaper and broadcast outlet in the nation has relied for decades." - Publisher. CONTENTS: War I: a circuit to anywhere, by Richard Pyle; Trials: crime and punishment, by Frances R. Mears; Freedom of information: a fight is what this is, by Nancy Benac; Aviation: like a monster bird, by Howard Benedict; Sports: thrills to last a lifetime, by Darrell Christian; Elections: when is AP going to call this thing?, by Tom Jory; Civil rights: a different kind of conflict, by Mike Feinsilber; War II: soldiers of the press, by Richard Pyle; Foreign correspondents: a rare breed, by Larry Heinzerling; Photographs: why not a camera?, by Hal Buell; Disasters: a walk through hell, by Jerry Schwartz; White House: the ultimate road trip, by Terry Hunt and Cal Woodward.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.