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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Aliens -- Baby Jessica Grows Up -- History: How American Myths Are Made -- If You Want To Humble an Empire -- Fighting for Life 50 Floors Up, with One Tool and Ingenuity -- U.S. Airways Flight 1549: Old Hands on the River Didn’t Have to Be Told What to Do -- Anthrax -- The Everyman Who Exposed Tainted Toothpaste -- When the Terror Began -- Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America -- A Knock on the Door -- Tiananmen Massacre -- Finding Respite from Worries -- My Father’s Closet -- A Backward Glance -- Silk Parachute -- The Road Block -- Burning My Father -- A Moving Experience -- The Lure of the Frozen Lake -- True Love Is Made of This -- The Greatest Penn Success Story -- A Pit Bull Who Provided Lessons in Loyalty and Unfailing Love -- A Sign: It’s Jesus, or a Lunch Bargain -- The Two Lives of John Favors ’72: A Political Activist Becomes a Monk in the Hare Krishna Movement -- In Albania, a Girl Who Became a Man -- The North Korean Film Festival: No Stars, No Swag, but What a Crowd! -- Title Infl ation: How Hollywood Watches Our Wallets -- Ice Accommodations -- The Renaissance of the Marais -- Walking to Vermont -- Between a Woman and Her Doctor: A Story about Abortion -- Baby’s First Helmet -- After Etan: The Missing Child Case That Held America Captive -- A Hostage Crisis Hits Latin America -- Children Caught in the Immigration Crossfire -- A Father’s Promise -- McKinley High School -- A Believing Principal Leads a Battle to Save a Sch -- Edison’s Big Loss -- Yodobashi No. 6 -- Sports: The Glue for Lost Kids -- Curtis Williams—Victory and Ruins -- Arson Science—To Their Rescue? -- Stinging Tentacles Offer Hint of Oceans’ Decline -- Chernobyl: The Danger Persists -- Alaska: Oil’s Ground Zero -- Arctic Rush -- The X Files -- Internet Gamblin -- Seeking New Ways to Nurture the Capacity to Report -- Role Model: Sarah McClendon -- Remembering a Friend: Ed Bradley Was a Gift to Journalism -- Whose Media Are We? -- The West and the Arab World: The Case of Media -- Don’t E-mail Me -- Millions of Women Weep -- The Lessons of Cain -- A View to a Kill -- Cuba: The End of the End of the Revolution -- Guantánamo -- The Promise -- Gaza Notebook: The Bullets in My In-Box -- A Gaza Diary -- In Horses, a Personal Refuge -- Hints of Lives Are All That Remains -- Now They Execute Polite Shuffles: There’s a Strange Sameness in the Stories of Baath Party Members in Iraq -- In Land of Ruin, a House of Stone Shelters Delight -- Iraq: Transformation Bypasses the Heartland -- Hezbollah Fighter Strove to be a Martyr -- Hezbollah Fighter Strove to be a Martyr -- Bosnia’s Elite “Disappeared” -- Stone Age Ways Surviving, Barely -- Oshima Journal: After 90 Years, Small Gestures of Joy for Lepers -- Ella in Wonderland -- On Writers and Writing: D. H. Lawrence Frees the Slaves -- Max Perkins: Editor of Genius -- The Prince -- Diary of a Bad Year, by J. M. Coetzee -- Beowulf and Fate Meet in a Modern Poet’s Lens -- John Leonard -- Growing by Degrees -- Pop Music: The Durability of Doo-Wop -- On the White Side of Crossover Dreams -- Something in the Air -- The Sonata Seminar -- Alex Ross -- A Battalion of One’s Own -- Injured in Iraq, a Soldier Is Shattered at Home -- Connections -- Trevor Manuel and the Liberation of Nelson Mandela -- Jerry Brown Still Wants Your Vote -- ”I Don’t Feel No Ways Tired” -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- The Fourth of July -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX From a Swedish hotel made of ice to the enigma of UFOs, from a tragedy on Lake Minnetonka to the gold mine of cyberpornography, The Princeton Reader brings together more than 90 favorite essays by 75 distinguished writers. This collection of nonfiction pieces by journalists who have held the Ferris/McGraw/Robbins professorships at Princeton University offers a feast of ideas, emotions, and experiences--political and personal, light-hearted and comic, serious and controversial--for anyone to dip into, contemplate, and enjoy.The volume includes a plethora of topics from the environment, terrorism, education, sports, politics, and music to profiles of memorable figures and riveting stories of survival. These important essays reflect the high-quality work found in today's major newspapers, magazines, broadcast media, and websites. The book's contributors include such outstanding writers as Ken Armstrong of the Seattle Times; Jill Abramson, Jim Dwyer, and Walt Bogdanich of the New York Times; Evan Thomas of Newsweek; Joel Achenbach and Marc Fisher of the Washington Post; Nancy Gibbs of Time; and Jane Mayer, John McPhee, John Seabrook, and Alex Ross of the New Yorker.The perfect collection for anyone who enjoys compelling narratives, The Princeton Reader contains a depth and breadth of nonfiction that will inspire, provoke, and endure
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