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@FullDRadio • NPR • MSNBC • PBS NewsHour 📖 #HotelScarface: “a raucous history of Miami's cocaine boom” ~NYTimes @LAISpeakers

16 books
Book Cover for: Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic, Mike Chinoy

Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic

Mike Chinoy
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🎙 Mike Chinoy, CNN's former Beijing bureau chief, is next on @FullDRadio. His book is Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic 🎧 Apple • Spotify • NPR 📻 https://t.co/OxgADuce3A 📕 https://t.co/WT2BCIIQu2 #China #Tiananmen #Taiwan #Xi https://t.co/BlrA8j7ly1

Paperback, 2023

$35.00Member price:$35.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: The Great Gatsby: A 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby: A 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) https://t.co/rlLHvDCI83

Paperback, 2021

$30.50Member price:$15.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Great Gatsby *, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great Gatsby *

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) https://t.co/rlLHvDCI83

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Book Cover for: The Revolution That Wasn't: Gamestop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors, Spencer Jakab

The Revolution That Wasn't: Gamestop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors

Spencer Jakab
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🎧The WSJ's @SpencerJakab on his book The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors. The Mulligans, new investors, share lessons from riding GameStop stock vs. the Hedge Fund-Industrial Complex https://t.co/22eKOyM3m2 #YOLO #GameStop $GME #apes https://t.co/UkzpUL0BiY

Hardcover, 2022

$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, Early Years, Franklin D. Roosevelt

F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, Early Years

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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On the evening of Feb. 15, 1933, anarchist Giuseppe Zangara very nearly assassinated President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami's Bayfront Park. Imagine how history might have unfolded without a Pres. FDR... https://t.co/rYeRzXpRvs #Miami #FDR #OTD #OnThisDay #WWII #Florida

Paperback, 2010

$47.95Member price:$43.15 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Four Wars, Five Presidents: A Reporter's Journey from Jerusalem to Saigon to the White House, Terence Smith

Four Wars, Five Presidents: A Reporter's Journey from Jerusalem to Saigon to the White House

Terence Smith
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Up next on @FullDRadio: TV news in the streaming age. 🎙@Mosheh Oinounou -- formerly the youngest EP in CBS Evening News history. 🎙Terence Smith, an 84-year-old veteran of TV news and the NYT. 📖Four Wars, Five Presidents: A Reporter's Journey  https://t.co/nnXl32Urir | NPR 📻 https://t.co/zbmTAUVdb4

Hardcover, 2021

$36.00Member price:$34.20 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami, Roben Farzad

Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami

Roben Farzad
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The "Welcome to Florida" pod had me on to discuss my book Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami https://t.co/DyrLiSM0bD #Miami #Florida #truecrime #MiamiVice #Scarface #truestory #books #OrganizedCrime #cocaine #FL #BecauseMiami #nonfiction https://t.co/Vy3MPKlWV8

Paperback, 2018

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Works Of Charles Sumner, Charles Sumner

The Works Of Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner
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Jan. 6, 2021: One photo 💥: A Confederate flag carried into the Capitol draws an alarmed look from an Orthodox Jewish rioter. Above it all: a portrait of anti-slavery crusader Sen. Charles Sumner (1811-1874). 📷Saul Loeb /AFP / Getty Images #GOP #January6th #Jan6 #insurrection https://t.co/4bUJ6SIs7j

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Book Cover for: It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO, Felix Gillette

It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO

Felix Gillette
Roben FarzadRoben Farzad

Next on @FullDRadio: "STREAMING'S HARSH WINTER" 🎙 @FelixGillette, co-author of It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO 🎙 Joel Mier, ex- Netflix marketing director; now @UR_RobinsSchool lecturer  https://t.co/nnXl33c29Z | NPR | Spotify #Hollywood https://t.co/LL5YPtzt78

Hardcover, 2022

$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) https://t.co/rlLHvDCI83

Paperback, 2004

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book