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The Top
100 Works of Journalism In the United States |
As selected by
Madeleine Blais, Alan Brinkley, David Brinkley, Lydia
Chavez, Karen Durbin, Clay Felker, Jeff Greenfield, Pete Hamill, Mary
McGrory, Nancy Maynard, Eric Newton, Dorothy Rabinowitz, Gene Roberts,
Morley Safer, David Shaw, George Will and Ben Yagoda;
And the New York University Journalism faculty: David Dent, Todd Gitlin,
Lamar Graham, Brooke Kroeger, Susie Linfield, Michael Ludlum, Robert
Manoff, Anne Matthews, Pamela Newkirk, Michael Norman, Richard Petrow,
Mary Quigley, Marcia Rock, Jay Rosen, Stephen Solomon, Mitchell Stephens,
Carol Sternhell, Jane Stone and Ellen Willis.
| 1. | John Hersey. "Hiroshima." Entire issue of The New Yorker. 1946 |
| 2. | Rachel Carson. "Silent Spring." Book. 1962 |
| 3. | Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Watergate investigations for the Washington Post. 1972-73 |
| 4. | Edward R. Murrow. "This is London . . ." radio reports for CBS on the German bombing of London. 1940 |
| 5. | Ida Tarbell. "The History of the Standard Oil Company" investigation. In McClure's magazine. 1902-1904. |
| 6. | Lincoln Steffens. "The Shame of the Cities" investigation. In McClure's magazine. 1902-1904 |
| 7. | 7. John Reed. "Ten Days That Shook the World." Book. 1919 |
| 8. | H.L. Mencken. Coverage of the Scopes "monkey" trial. In the Baltimore Sun. 1925 |
| 9. | Ernie Pyle. Reports from Europe and the Pacific during World War II for the Scripps-Howard newspapers. 1940-45 |
| 10. | Edward
R. Murrow and Fred Friendly. See It Now CBS television documentary
taking on Senator Joseph McCarthy. 1954 |
| 11. | Edward R. Murrow, David Lowe and Fred Friendly. CBS Reports television documentary "Harvest of Shame." 1960 |
| 12. | Seymour
Hersh. Investigation of massacre committed by American soldiers
at My Lai in Vietnam. For Dispatch News Service. 1969 |
| 13. |
New York Times. Publication of the Pentagon Papers. 1971 |
| 14. | James Agee and Walker Evans. "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." Book. 1941 |
| 15. | W.E.B. DuBois. "The Souls of Black Folk." Collected articles. 1903 |
| 16. | I.F. Stone. I.F. Stone's Weekly. 1953-67 |
| 17. | Henry
Hampton. "Eyes on the Prize." Documentary. 1987 |
| 18. | Tom
Wolfe. "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." Book. 1968 |
| 19. | Norman
Mailer. "The Armies of the Night." Book. 1968 |
| 20. | Hannah Arendt. "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil." Collected articles. 1963 |
| 21. |
William Shirer. "Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent,
1939-1941." Book. 1941 |
| 22. | Truman
Capote. "In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and
Its Consequences." Book. 1965 |
| 23. | Joan
Didion. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem." Collected articles. 1968
|
| 24. | Tom
Wolfe. "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby." Collected
articles. 1965 |
| 25. | Michael
Herr. "Dispatches." Book. 1977 |
| 26. | Theodore
White. "The Making of the President: 1960." Book. 1961 |
| 27. | Robert
Capa. Ten photographs from D-Day. 1944 |
| 28. | J.
Anthony Lukas. "Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives
of Three American Families." Book. 1985 |
| 29. | Richard
Harding Davis. Coverage of German march into Belgium. For the
Wheeler Syndicate and magazines. 1914 |
| 30. | Dorothy Thompson. Reports on the rise of Hitler in Cosmopolitan and Saturday Evening Post. 1931-34 |
| 31. |
John Steinbeck. Reports on Okie migrant camp life for the San
Francisco News. 1936 |
| 32. | A.J.
Liebling. "The Road Back to Paris." Collected articles. 1944 |
| 33. | Ernest
Hemingway. Reports on the Spanish Civil War. In the New Republic.
1937-38 |
| 34. |
Martha Gellhorn. "The Face of War." Collected articles. 1959 |
| 35. |
James Baldwin. "The Fire Next Time." Book. 1963 |
| 36. | Joseph
Mitchell. "Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories." Collection
of much older articles. 1992 |
| 37. |
Betty Friedan. "The Feminine Mystique." Book. 1963 |
| 38. | Ralph
Nader. "Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American
Automobile." Book. 1965 |
| 39. | Herblock
(Herbert Block). Cartoons on "McCarthyism." In the Washington
Post. 1950 |
| 40. | James Baldwin. "Letter from the South: Nobody Knows My Name." In the Partisan Review. 1959 |
| 41. | Huynh
Cong Ut. Photograph of a burning girl running from a napalm attack.
For the Associated Press. 1972 |
| 42. | Pauline
Kael. "Trash, Art, and the Movies." In Harper's. 1969 |
| 43. | Gay
Talese. "Fame and Obscurity: Portraits by Gay Talese." Collected
articles. 1970 |
| 44. | Randy
Shilts. Reports on AIDS for the San Francisco Chronicle. 1981-85
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| 45. | Janet
Flanner (Genet). "Paris Journals" chronicling of Paris's emergence
from the Occupation. In The New Yorker. 1944-45 |
| 46. | Neil
Sheehan. "A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in
Vietnam." Book. 1988 |
| 47. | A.
J. Liebling. "The Wayward Pressman." Collected articles. 1947
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| 48. | Tom
Wolfe. "The Right Stuff." Book. 1979 |
| 49. | Murray
Kempton. "America Comes of Middle Age: Columns 1950-1962." Collected
articles. 1963 |
| 50. | Murray
Kempton. "Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties."
Book. 1955 |
| 51. | Donald
L. Barlett and James B. Steele. "America: What Went Wrong?" Series
in Philadelphia Inquirer.1991 |
| 52. | Taylor
Branch. "Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63."
Book. 1988 |
| 53. | Harrison
Salisbury. Reporting from the Soviet Union for the New York Times.
1949-54 |
| 54. | John McPhee. "The John McPhee Reader." Collected articles. 1976 |
| 55. | ABC.
Live television broadcast of Army-McCarthy hearings. 1954 |
| 56. | Frederick
Wiseman. "Titicut Follies." Documentary. 1967 |
| 57. |
David Remnick. "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire."
Book. 1993 |
| 58. | Richard
Ben Cramer. "What It Takes: The Way to the White House." Book.
1992 |
| 59. | Jonathan
Schell. "The Fate of the Earth." Book. 1982 |
| 60. | Russell Baker. "Francs and Beans." In the New York Times. 1975 |
| 61. |
Homer Bigart. Account of being over Japan in a bomber when World
War II came to an end. In the New York Herald-Tribune 1945 |
| 62. | Ben
Hecht. "1001 Afternoons in Chicago." Collected articles. 1922
|
| 63. | Walter
Cronkite. CBS television documentary on Vietnam. 1968 |
| 64. | Walter
Lippmann. Early essays for the New Republic. 1914 |
| 65. | Margaret
Bourke-White. Photographs following the defeat of Germany. For
Life magazine. 1945 |
| 66. |
Lillian Ross. "Reporting." Collected articles. 1964 |
| 67. |
Nicholas Lemann. "The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration
and How It Changed America." Book. 1991 |
| 68. |
Joe Rosenthal. Photograph of Marines raising a U.S. flag on Mount
Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima. For the Associated Press.
1945 |
| 69. | Hodding
Carter, Jr. "Go for Broke." Editorial in Carter's Delta Democrat-Times
(Greenville, MS). 1945 |
| 70. | The
New Yorker. "The New Yorker Book of War Pieces." Collected articles.
1947 |
| 71. | Meyer
Berger. Report on the murderer Howard Unruh. In the New York Times.
1949 |
| 72. | Norman
Mailer. "The Executioner's Song." Book. 1979 |
| 73. | Robert
Capa. Spanish Civil War photos for Life. 1936 |
| 74. | Susan
Sontag. "Notes on 'Camp'." In the Partisan Review. 1964 |
| 75. | Bob
Woodward and Carl Bernstein. "All the President's Men." Book.
1974 |
| 76. | John Hersey. "Here To Stay." Collected articles. 1963 |
| 77. | A.J.
Liebling. "The Earl of Louisiana." Book. 1961 |
| 78. | Mike
Davis. "City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles."
Book. 1990 |
| 79. |
Melissa Fay Greene. "Praying for Sheetrock." Book. 1991 |
| 80. | J. Anthony Lukas. "The Two Worlds of Linda Fitzpatrick." In the New York Times. 1967 |
| 81. |
Herbert Bayard Swope. "Klan Exposed." In the New York World. 1921
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| 82. | William
Allen White. "To an Anxious Friend." In the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette.
1922 |
| 83. | Edward R. Murrow. Report of the liberation of Buchenwald for CBS radio. 1945 |
| 84. | Joseph
Mitchell. "McSorley's Wonderful Saloon." Collected articles. 1943
|
| 85. | Lillian
Ross. "Picture." Book. 1952 |
| 86. | Earl
Brown. Series of articles on race for Harper's and Life magazines.
1942-44 |
| 87. | Greil
Marcus. "Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music."
Book. 1975 |
| 88. | Morley
Safer. Report for CBS television on atrocities committed by American
soldiers on the hamlet of Cam Ne in Vietnam. 1965 |
| 89. | Ted
Poston. Coverage of the "Little Scottsboro" trial. In the New
York Post. 1949 |
| 90. | Leon
Dash. "Rosa Lee's Story." Series in the Washington Post. 1994
|
| 91. | Jane
Kramer. "Europeans." Collected articles. 1988 |
| 92. | Eddie
Adams and Vo Suu. Associated Press photograph and NBC television
footage of a Saigon execution. 1968 |
| 93. | Grantland
Rice. "Notre Dame's 'Four Horsemen'." In the New York Herald-Tribune.
1924 |
| 94. | Jane
Kramer. "The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New
Germany." Collected articles. 1996 |
| 95. | Frank
McCourt. "Angela's Ashes." Book. 1996 |
| 96. | Vincent
Sheean. "Personal History." Book. 1935 |
| 97. | W.E.B.
DuBois. Columns on race during his tenure as editor of The Crisis.
1910-34 |
| 98. | Damon
Runyon. Crime reporting in the New York American. 1926 |
| 99. | Joe
McGinniss. "The Selling of the President 1968." Book. 1969 |
| 100. | Hunter S. Thompson. "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail." Book. 1973 |