Brooke Kroeger
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Tells the stories of six present day "passers": a black screenwriter who passed as a white Jew, a white teacher who passed for black, a working-class Puerto Rican desktop publishing expert who passes for someone of more privileged background, a gay Conservative Jewish seminarian and a lesbian naval officer who passed for straight, and a poet who radically shifts his persona to write about rock 'n' roll. These and other stories from history explore...
Author
Pub. Date
1994.
Description
Nellie Bly was "the best reporter in America," wrote the New York Evening Journal on the occasion of her death in 1922. One of the most rousing characters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Nellie Bly was a pioneer of investigative journalism. She feigned insanity and got herself committed to a lunatic asylum to expose its horrid conditions. She circled the globe faster than any live or fictional soul. She designed, manufactured,...
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