Random House, Inc. - PRWeb Press Release Account Feed http://www.rsspad.com/rss2a/381673.xml Random House, Inc. - Press Releases en xml@emediawire.com xml@emediawire.com 30 Reporter Examines Cheating in Baseball, Exposing Forerunner of Spygate/Steroids Scandals http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb768734.htm With spring training upon us, Wall Street Journal Reporter Joshua Prager tells the long-hidden tale behind baseball's greatest moment in The Echoing Green, now out in paperback. Prager's widely-acclaimed account of the 1951 Shot Heard Round the World is not simply a timely discourse on cheating in sport. It is a timeless morality play about the effects of that cheating that will continue to lay low guilty ballplayer and disillusioned fan alike as long as there is foul play. (PRWeb Mar 14, 2008)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb768734.htm New Book Examines Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain's Favorable Treatment by the Media http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/02/prweb712074.htm On March 25, 2008, Anchor Books will publish "FREE RIDE: John McCain and the Media" -- bestselling author David Brock and Paul Waldman's eye-opening study of how the mainstream media has helped John McCain's political rise from the Keating Five scandal to viable presidential candidate. (PRWeb Feb 22, 2008)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/02/prweb712074.htm Anchor Books Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Nigerian Writer Chinua Achebe's Novel "Things Fall Apart" with a Tribute in New York with Nobel Prize Laureate Toni Morrison http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/02/prweb701443.htm This week, Anchor Books will publish the 50th Anniversary Edition of Chinua Achebe's modern classic novel -- THINGS FALL APART. First published in England in 1958, THINGS FALL APART is one of the great novels of the 20th century, and Achebe is arguably the father of modern African literature. Put simply, THINGS FALL APART, one of the first African novels written in English to receive global critical acclaim, is the most illuminating and permanent monument we have to the modern African experience as seen from within. Since its first publication Achebe's seminal novel has been published in fifty different languages and has sold millions of copies in the United States alone since its original publication. (PRWeb Feb 19, 2008)

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