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Back to SearchRichard Kreitner, The Nation Almanac
The Nation magazine is one of America’s most distinguished journalistic enterprises featuring the writing and work of such notable people as Albert E…
11 years, 1 month ago
Deana A. Rohlinger, “Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Movements in America” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Deana A. Rohlinger has just written Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Movements in America (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Rohlinger is a…
11 years, 3 months ago
John Lloyd and Cristina Marconi, “Reporting the EU: News, Media and the European Institutions” (I. B. Tauris, 2014)
How those within the Brussels Beltway in the EU institutions must pine for the simple days of the past. Not only was the European project in itself f…
11 years, 6 months ago
Victor Pickard, “America’s Battle for Media Democracy” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
The media system in the United States could have developed into something very different than what it is today. In fact, there was an era in which si…
11 years, 6 months ago
Randal Marlin, “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion” (Broadview Press, 2013)
It’s been 100 years since the start of the First World War, a conflict that cost millions of lives. In his recently revised book, Propaganda and the …
11 years, 6 months ago
Heather Menzies, “Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good: A Memoir and Manifesto” (New Society Publishers, 2014)
The Canadian author and scholar, Heather Menzies, has written a book about the journey she took to the highlands of Scotland in search of her ancest…
11 years, 8 months ago
Jonathan Swarts, “Constructing Neoliberalism: Economic Transformation in Anglo-American Democracies” (University of Toronto Press, 2013)
The new book, Constructing Neoliberalism: Economic Transformation in Anglo-American Democracies (University of Toronto Press, 2013) shows how poli…
11 years, 8 months ago
Brooke Erin Duffy, “Remake, Remodel: Women’s Magazines in the Digital Age”
Brooke Erin Duffy’s Remake, Remodel: Women’s Magazines in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2013) traces the upheaval in the women’s mag…
11 years, 8 months ago
Brooke Erin Duffy, "Remake, Remodel: Women's Magazines in the Digital Age" (U Illinois Press, 2013)
Episode 10
Brooke Erin Duffy's Remake, Remodel: Women's Magazines in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2013) traces the upheaval in the women's mag…
11 years, 8 months ago
Richard Starr, “Equal As Citizens: The Tumultuous and Troubled History of a Great Canadian Idea” (Formac, 2014)
“We are not half a dozen provinces. We are one great Dominion,” Canada’s first Prime Minister, John A. Macdonald proudly declared. More than a centur…
11 years, 8 months ago