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  • When the City Stopped

    Stories from New York's Essential Workers

    In When the City Stopped**, Robert Snyder tells the story of COVID-19 in the words of ordinary New Yorkers, illuminating the fear and uncertainty of life in the early weeks and months, as well as the solidarity that sustained the city.** New Yorkers were "alone together," separated by the protective measures of social distancing and the fundamental inequalities of life and work in New York City. ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Defining Moments in Journalism

    Most great transformations are not apparent as we live through them. Only in hindsight do individual moments acquire layers of meaning that give them great significance. Looking back is not something that comes naturally to journalists, immersed as they are in breaking events and relentless deadlines. But there is still good reason for journalists, scholars, and people who care about journalism to ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Crossing Broadway

    Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City

    Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"—the home of the nation's ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Journalists in Peril

    Threats to journalists carry many different lessons, but one is constant: People who would intimidate or kill journalists are usually terrified that someone might find out. Journalists who want to protect one another need do nothing more than what should come naturally to them: report on threats to journalists--big threats and small threats, whether they are directed against the international ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    When the City Stopped

    Stories from New York's Essential Workers

    Narrated by Joel Richards, Kelli Tager ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 26 min

    In When the City Stopped, Robert Snyder tells the story of COVID-19 in the words of ordinary New Yorkers, illuminating the fear and uncertainty of life in the early weeks and months, as well as the solidarity that sustained the city. New Yorkers were "alone together," separated by the protective measures of social distancing and the fundamental inequalities of life and work in New York City. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Mugged

    Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama

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    “This isn’t a story about black people—it’s a story about the Left’s agenda to patronize blacks and lie to everyone else.”For decades, the Left has been putting on a play with themselves as heroes in an ongoing civil rights movement—which they were mostly absent from at the time. Long after pervasive racial discrimination ended, they kept pretending America was being run by the Klan and that ... Read more

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  • The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said

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  • Hell and Other Destinations

    A 21st-Century Memoir

    “Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat.” —New YorkerFrom the seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright—among history's most admired and tireless public servants—a revealing, funny, and inspiring reflection on the challenge of continuing one’s career far beyond the normal age of retirementIn 2001, when Madeleine Albright was ... Read more

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  • The Invisible Bridge

    The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

    The New York Times bestselling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s is “a Rosetta stone for reading America and its politics today” (Frank Rich, The New York Times Book Review).In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term—until televised Watergate ... Read more

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