America’s Best Newspaper Writing

This is a great anthology for anyone teaching (or learning) journalism or even expository writing. Many of the big names in modern journalism are Rick Bragg, Mitch Albom, Patricia Raybon, Francis X. Clines, Thomas French, William Blundell, Cynthia Gorney, Diane Griego Erwin. But there is also a section of “classics,” and a first-person account by Marvel Cooke of her day “undercover” as a domestic worker in 1950 is a particularly powerful piece of writing.