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To tell the truth : my life as a foreign correspondent / Lewis M. Simons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simons, Lewis M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Simons, Lewis M.
- Foreign correspondents--Asia--Biography.
- Foreign correspondents.
- Foreign correspondents--United States--Biography.
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Press coverage.
- Asia--Press coverage.
- Asia.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2022.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2022]
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- At a time when journalism is under attack from Trumpian charges of "lying press," my 50 years as a foreign correspondent in Asia demonstrate that without journalists who risk their lives, American democracy is in danger of shattering.
- Contents:
- Intro
- To Tell the Truth
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Murder in Manila
- Chapter Two: The Prince of Paterson
- Chapter Three: A Lost and Found Decade
- Chapter Four: Total Bullshit
- Chapter Five: Tet
- Chapter Six: Quiet No More in Malaysia
- Chapter Seven: My Favorite Dictator
- Chapter Eight: The Council, the Papers, and the Post
- Chapter Nine: Molested at Birth
- Chapter Ten: Delhi Wallah
- Chapter Eleven: Excess Baggage
- Chapter Twelve: Stirring up Trouble in India
- Chapter Thirteen: Birth and Death in Bangkok
- Chapter Fourteen: Knight Rider to the Rescue
- Chapter Fifteen: Filling the Dumpling
- Chapter Sixteen: The Other Chinese
- Chapter Seventeen: Time to Go
- Chapter Eighteen: Holding the Line
- Chapter Nineteen: Crossing the Line
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8182-833-2
- 1-5381-7317-4
- OCLC:
- 1350688957
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