Knopf. Used - Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Knopf ISBN 0394583124 9780394583129 [US]

Knopf, Date: 1990-03-05. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9x6x1. Very light shelf wear on the board edges and the dust jacket edges. No highlighting, underlining or any other marks. Knopf, . Hardcover First Edition. The book condition is Near Fine. The dust jacket condition is Near Fine. 1990. Knopf ISBN 0394583124 9780394583129 [US]

New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Date: 1990. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 162 pages. Book-length account on subject. The single greatest book on the ethics - the lack thereof - of modern journalism ever written in the late-20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are innumerable as the book is now required reading in university mass-media/journalism courses. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now very rare. Presents Janet Malcolm's "The Journalist And The Murderer". Her masterpiece, and her most influential, indeed still controversial, book. "A seminal work on the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her larger-than-life example - the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of 'Fatal Vision', a book about his crime - she delves into the always uneasy, sometimes tragic relationship that exists between journalist and subject. In Malcolm's view, neither journalist nor subject can avoid the moral impasse that is built into the journalistic situation. When the text first appeared, as a two-part article in The New Yorker, its thesis seemed so radical and its irony so pitiless ...