Here is a book I might have to put on my wish list. Did I mention I have a birthday coming up? This is the publisher’s description: “In this sweeping history, Paul Starr shows how politics created our media world, from the emergence of the […]

One of the scholars/practitioners that I cited in my graduate research regarding the news media and society was Bill Kovach, the former editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution and co-author of the book Warp Speed, American in the Age of Mixed Media. The book, written […]

This is the opening paragraph for a book review that will appear in the June 24 issue of the New York Review of Books, titled ‘Unfit to Print?’ It’s written by Michael Massing. “Buried deep in Bob Woodward’s new book, Plan of Attack, is a […]

It’s the largest published book in the world. Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom is a collection of photographs taken by MIT students in Asia, and is described as a “visual odyssey across the country.” At five feet by seven feet, six […]