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1. Review

   Brief Encounters

   December 9, 2009 05:20 PM

   Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting By John Maxwell Hamilton Louisiana State University Press 655 pages, $45 This tome has the heft of a doorstop and contains more than 200,000 words... Continue reading

2. Review

   Brief Encounters

   October 6, 2009 09:19 PM

   The News From Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and The Irish Revolution By Maurice Walsh I.B. Tauris 258 pages, £20 At the end of World War I, the victorious Allies brought self-determination to Europe, forging whole new nations... Continue reading

3. Review

   Brief Encounters

   July 14, 2009 12:38 PM

   Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press By Eric Boehlert Free Press 280 pages, $26 in his classic The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Crouse showed how a cluster of bigfoot reporters... Continue reading

4. Review

   Brief Encounters

   May 16, 2009 04:05 PM

   The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst | By Kenneth Whyte | Counterpoint | 546 pages, $30 It’s a story told and retold. Dynamic young Willie Hearst came out of the West, challenged the newspaper titans of... Continue reading

5. Review

   Brief Encounters

   March 1, 2009 04:00 PM

   Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism | By Ralph Engelman, Foreword by Morley Safer | Columbia University Press | 440 pages | $34.50 Those who saw Good Night and Good Luck, the 2005 film about... Continue reading

6. Review

   Brief Encounters

   January 23, 2009 11:49 AM

   All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn’t): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page By Jerelle Kraus Columbia University Press 260 pages, $34.95 On September 21, 1970, The New York Times unveiled a new kind of... Continue reading

7. Review

   Brief Encounters

   January 7, 2009 01:15 PM

   The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America By Susan Wise Bauer Princeton University Press 352 pages, $26.95 We are living, writes Susan Wise Bauer, in an Age of Public Confession, now at least forty... Continue reading

8. Review

   Brief Encounters

   October 21, 2008 11:06 AM

   Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and The First Amendment
 By Kathy Roberts Forde
 University of Massachusetts Press 
304 pages, $28.95 The Masson case was, like so many other libel cases of the last... Continue reading

9. Review

   Brief Encounters

   August 26, 2008 09:00 AM

   Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, The End of Civilization By Nicholson Baker Simon & Schuster 576 pages, $30 This curious book is in the form of a chronicle, a stark chronology in which... Continue reading

10. Review

    Brief Encounters

    June 19, 2008 09:00 AM

    Pulitzer’s Gold: Behind the Prize for Public Service Journalism By Roy J. Harris Jr. University of Missouri Press 473 pages, $39.95 It is possible that hardly anybody would remember Joseph Pulitzer—he died in 1911—had he not attached his name... Continue reading

11. Review

    Brief Encounters

    April 29, 2008 09:00 AM

    Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller By Steve Weinberg W. W. Norton 256 pages, $25.95 Those who have seen the new film There Will Be Blood, based on Upton Sinclair’s novel... Continue reading

12. Review

    Brief Encounters

    February 26, 2008 09:00 AM

    Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate By Alicia C. Shepard John Wiley & Sons 288 pages, $24.95 In my files I have a folder of clippings, brown and soft as an old shoeshine cloth. The one... Continue reading

13. Review

    Brief Encounters

    December 27, 2007 09:00 AM

    Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else By Reporters of the Associated Press, with a foreword by David Halberstam Princeton Architectural Press 432 pages, $35 In this multi-authored new history of the Associated... Continue reading

14. Review

    Brief Encounters

    August 14, 2007 08:30 AM

    When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina By W. Lance Bennett, Regina G. Lawrence, and Steven Livingston University of Chicago Press 263 pages, $22.50 When has the American press ever prevented a... Continue reading

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