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Peter Copeland

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I have been a journalist and author for 40 years, starting as a night police reporter in Chicago. I moved to El Paso, Texas, and covered the border with Mexico. Then I opened a bureau in Mexico City to cover all of Latin America for five years during the 1980s. I covered the Pentagon for five years, including the U.S. invasion of Panama, the first Gulf War and the intervention in Somalia. I was the Washington bureau chief for the E.W. Scripps Company for 14 years. Finding the News is my fifth book. I'm married with two children and live in Washington, D.C. ...more

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	Living With Our Genes by Dean H. Hamer, Peter Copeland (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 1998 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	She Went to War: The Rhonda Cornum Story by Rhonda Cornum, Peter Copeland (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior by Dean H. Hamer, Peter Copeland (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Finding the News: Adventures of a Young Reporter by Peter Copeland (Goodreads Author), John Maxwell Hamilton (Foreword) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Finding the News: Adventures of a Young Reporter (From Our Own Correspondent)

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Peter Copeland rated a book it was amazing The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I found myself hearing Jamaican voices for a week after devouring this book. It’s only now that I realize how good the writing must be in order to “hear” the words on the page. Donna Hemans does it gently with just a few tweaks to punctuation and phr ...more
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A moving and heartfelt exploration of loss, trauma, and what it means to be at home. Zita is a longtime friend and fellow journalist, but we’ve never talked about the things she reveals about her childhood and her feelings about it today as an adult. ...more
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