Also: "The Executioner's Song" by Norman Mailer. A classic that kept me reading through more than a thousand pages as I got to know the doomed killer Gary Gilmore, killed by a firing squad in 1977.

"Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" by Alfred Lansing. Astonishing story of the British ship Endurance
stuck in ice for five months in 1914, then crushed by the ice. And yet all of Shackleton's men survived.

Definitely agree on the Purnell book.

Yes! And the first. (I've only read the first two, but I imagine they're all spectacular)

Blatantly unconstitutional. The dean of the "Media School" is not a journalist and seems unaware of what the First Amendment requires.

Great journalism. Keep asking the question. Over and over. It's clear he has no answer.

Hey! That’s not old!

Very Susan Collins-ish. Admonishment works so well with people determined to skirt the law.

Devastating article. I've been wondering why more media outlets have not been covering the immense anger at health insurance companies. (By the way, we met Wendell Potter once at Good Contrivance Farm)

This was a terrifying story not only about the doctor, but about the hospital that covered for him. Excellent and thorough reporting.