Final Draft - The Collected Work of David Carr

A career-spanning selection of the legendary reporter David Carr's writing for the New York Times, Washington City Paper, New York Magazine, the Atlantic, and more.

Throughout his 25-year career, David Carr was noted forhis sharp and fearless observations, his uncanny sense of fairness and justice, and his remarkable compassion and wit. His writing was informed both by his own hardships as an addict and his intense love of the journalist's craft. His rangefrom media politicsto national politics, fromrock ';n' roll celebrities to the unknown civil servants who make our daily lives functionwas broad and often timeless. Edited by his widow, Jill Rooney Carr, andwith an introduction by one of the many journalists David Carrmentored, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Final Draft is a singular event inthe world of writing news, an artincreasingly endangered in these troubled times.