Recently, we asked readers to recommend a book to members of the journalistic community for their summer vacations. Below, we present an alphabetized list of the recommendations we received, with a link to more information for each book.
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion - Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis
Confessions of a Muckraker - Jack Anderson, with James Boyd
The Wealth of Networks - Yochai Benkler
Passionate Minds - David Bodanis
Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet - Christine L. Borgman
Backroom Politics - Bill and Nancy Boyarsky
The Corpse Had A Familiar Face - Edna Buchanan
On Being Certain - Robert Burton
The Death of Discourse - Ronald K.L. Collins and David M. Skover
The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly
The Muckrakers - Fred J. Cook
Why Evolution is True - Jerry Coyne
The Boys on the Bus - Timothy Crouse
36 Views of Mount Fuji - Cathy Davidson
Thomas Morton of Merrymount; The Life and Renaissance of an Early American Poet - Jack Dempsey
A Century of Spin: How Public Relations Became the Cutting Edge of Corporate Power - William Dinan and David Millar
The Financier - Theodore Dreiser
The Titan - Theodore Dreiser
The Investigative Journalist - James Dygert
Wallace - Marshall Frady
Angels and Ages - Adam Gopnik
Who Will the People - William Greider
American Radical:The Life and Times of I.F.Stone - D.D. Guttenplan
The Best and the Brightest - David Halberstam
The Powers That Be - David Halberstam
The Histories - Herodotus
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 - Daniel Walker Howe
Untended Gates: The Mismanaged Press - Norman Isaacs
The Age of American Unreason - Susan Jacoby
There Are No Children Here - Alex Kotlowitz
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy - Lawrence Lessig
The Bedbug and Selected Poetry - Vladimir Mayakovsky
The Political Economy of Media - Robert McChesney
Bending Science - Tom McGarity and Wendy Wagner
To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells - Linda O. McMurray
Poison Penmanship - Jessica Mitford
Field of Blood, The Dead Hour, and Slip of the Knife - Denise Mina
Investigative Reporting : From Courthouse to White House - Clark R. Mollenhoff
Corpocracy - Robert Monks
The Republican War on Science - Chris Mooney
A Matter of Opinion - Victor S. Navasky
The Eliminationists - David Neiwert
The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, And Reportage - George Orwell
I.F. Stone: A Portrait - Andrew Patner
The How and the Why - David Park
Scandals, Scamps and Scoundrels - James Phelan
Stone’s Fall - Iain Pears
Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India’s Poorest Districts - P Sainath
Dwarf Rapes Nun, Flees in UFO - Arnold Sawislak
Muckraking!: Journalism that Changed America - William Serrin and Judith Serrin
24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that Destroyed Faith in Corporate America - Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller
The Trouble with Physics- Lee Smolin
Nudge - Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler
The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson
Be the Media - Various
The Last Empire: Essays 1992 – 2000 - Gore Vidal
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
Strangers to Ourselves - Timothy Wilson
All the President’s Men - Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Anabasis - Xenophon
Passionate Declarations - Howard Zinn
The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It - Jonathan Zittrain