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Item Weight: 0.96 lbs
Book Title: All the News Unfit to Print : How Things Were... and How They Were Reported
Item Length: 9in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Eric Burns
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: United States / General
Publisher: Wiley & Sons CA, The Limited, John
Publication Year: 2009
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
