Danger Pay : : Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994 / / Carol Spencer Mitchell; ed. by Ellen Spencer Susman.
"You're going where?" Carol Spencer Mitchell's father demanded as she set off in 1984 to cover the Middle East as a photojournalist for Newsweek and other publications. In this intensely thoughtful memoir, Spencer Mitchell probes the motivations that impelled her, a single, Jewis...
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