The Nobility of Craft: A Journalism Reader

A curated collection of journalistic reporting essays by various well known authors:Judgment on the Witch Walpurga Hausmännin (1587) - The House of FuggerPictures from Italy (1846) (Excerpt) - Charles DickensWatercress Girl (1861-62) - Henry MayhewTen Days in a Mad-House (1888) (Excerpt) - Nellie BlyHow the Other Half Lives, Pauperism in the Tenements (1890) (Excerpt) - Jacob A. RiisSpecimen Days. A Night Battle (1892) (Excerpt) - Walt WhitmanNewspaper Days (1931) (Excerpt) - Theodore DreiserBurned to Death (1893) - Theodore DreiserWhen Man Falls, Crowd Gathers (1894) - Stephen CraneA Red Record (1895) (Excerpt) - Ida B. Wells-BarnettThe Death of Rodriguez (1897) - Richard Harding DavisWounds in the Rain (1899) (Excerpt) - Stephen CraneThe People of the Abyss (1903) (Excerpt) - Jack LondonTwelve Seconds That Changed the World (1903) - Norfolk Virginian-PilotThe Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911) - William G. ShepherdWith the Allies (1914) (Excerpt) - Richard Harding DavisVerdun Belle (1918) - Alexander WoollcottDeath in the Dust (1936) - John SteinbeckDachau (1945) - Martha GellhornThe Everglades: River of Grass (1947) - Marjory Stoneman DouglasA Mule Cortege for the Apostle of the Poor (1968) - Alistair CookeHell's Angels (1966) (Excerpt) - Hunter S. ThompsonSnooze, You Lose (1980) - Wayne Worcester