20 Best biography books like Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life by Margaret Sullivan

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Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

By: Margaret Sullivan

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"Sullivan remains the critic American journalism requires, a veteran practitioner with street cred,…

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1. The Journalist and the Murderer

By: Janet Malcolm , Ian Jack

3.84

Format: 135 pages,

In The Journalist And The Murderer, Janet Malcolm examines the psychopathology of journalism. She d… read more

Similar categories in Janet Malcolm's The Journalist and the Murderer book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • journalism
  • nonfiction
Cover of Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher

2. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

Similar categories in Kara Swisher's Burn Book: A Tech Love Story book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook
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3. Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'

By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d’hotel who manned the front of the … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It never fails, the most awful human beings, the power hungry, those with the least personality, kindness, and humanity, are general managers in restaurants."

-Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'

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4. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

By: Ed Zwick

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Cover of The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening by Ari Shapiro

5. The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

By: Ari Shapiro

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lo… read more

Similar categories in Ari Shapiro's The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
"We'd drive west to the fog of the coast. In Oregon, nobody calls it the beach, maybe to discourage false hopes of warm and sun."

-Ari Shapiro, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

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6. Rough Sleepers

By: Tracy Kidder

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Kidder's Rough Sleepers book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery by Lawrence Ingrassia

7. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

By: Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Ingrassia's A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading by Dwight Garner

8. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

By: Dwight Garner

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more

Similar categories in Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

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9. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

By: Matt Singer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more

Similar categories in Matt Singer's Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Queen of Exiles

By: Vanessa Riley

3.77

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed historical novelist Vanessa Riley is back with another novel based on the life of an extr… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Riley's Queen of Exiles book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • audiobook
Cover of Fi: A Memoir of My Son by Alexandra Fuller

11. Fi: A Memoir of My Son

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Fuller's Fi: A Memoir of My Son book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

Cover of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future by Franklin Foer

12. The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future

By: Franklin Foer

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, wi… read more

Similar categories in Franklin Foer's The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind by Ben Terris

13. The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind

By: Ben Terris

3.74

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

"No one gets today's Washington like Ben Terris…THE BIG BREAK is the definitive accounting of ‘how … read more

Similar categories in Ben Terris's The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. I've Tried Being Nice: Essays

By: Ann Leary

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from t… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leary's I've Tried Being Nice: Essays book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World by Jen Psaki

15. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

By: Jen Psaki

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more

Similar categories in Jen Psaki's Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

Cover of Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences by Joan Biskupic

16. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

By: Joan Biskupic

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more

Similar categories in Joan Biskupic's Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life by Margaret  Sullivan

17. Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

By: Margaret Sullivan

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"Sullivan remains the critic American journalism requires, a veteran practitioner with street cred,… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook
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18. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

By: Drew Gilpin Faust

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th… read more

Similar categories in Drew Gilpin Faust's Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."

-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

"In an increasingly serious world, these young women had never been asked or expected to be serious. (p. 13)"

-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidd…"

-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

Cover of Private Equity: A Memoir by Carrie Sun

19. Private Equity: A Memoir

By: Carrie Sun

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indict… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"A gift weighed down by the imposition of gratitude becomes an expectation; over time, it becomes debt."

-Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir

Cover of The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes by Mark Kurlansky

20. The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes

By: Mark Kurlansky

3.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times- bestselling author of Cod and Salt , a delectable look at the cultural, hi… read more

Similar categories in Mark Kurlansky's The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism by Adam  Nagourney

21. The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism

By: Adam Nagourney

4.22

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” The … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral by Ben Smith

22. Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

By: Ben Smith

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, J… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick

23. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

By: Dahlia Lithwick

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia Lithwick's Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell…"

-Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

Cover of Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST by Martin Baron

24. Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST

By: Martin Baron

4.20

Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition

“A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.” — T… read more

Similar categories in Martin Baron's Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge

25. The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family

By: Kerri K. Greenidge

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Sarah and Angelina Grimke—the Grimke sisters—are revered figures in American history, famous for re… read more

Similar categories in Kerri K. Greenidge's The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy by Brian Stelter

26. Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Brian Stelter

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The  New York Times  bestselling author of  HOAX,  “[a] rare look inside the profoundly influential… read more

Similar categories in Brian Stelter's Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life by Nicholas D. Kristof

27. Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life

By: Nicholas D. Kristof

4.55

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and best-selling author Nicholas D. Kristof, … read more

Similar categories in Nicholas D. Kristof's Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of Uphill: A Memoir by Jemele Hill

28. Uphill: A Memoir

By: Jemele Hill

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

One of Oprah Daily 's Best Fall Nonfiction Books of 2022 An empowering, unabashedly bold memoir by… read more

Similar categories in Jemele Hill's Uphill: A Memoir book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex by Casey Tanner

29. Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex

By: Casey Tanner

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking guide to sexuality that dispels     the stale cultural attitudes about sex that le… read more

Similar categories in Casey Tanner's Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice by David S. Tatel

30. Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice

By: David S. Tatel

4.48

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

A memoir by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years d… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. Big Fan

By: Alexandra Romanoff

4.09

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A political strategist, tainted by a scandalous ex, finds an unexpected career detour when her teen… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Romanoff's Big Fan book and Margaret Sullivan's Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

  • audiobook

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3.67

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Ed Zwick

4.03

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