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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter By Rick Shenkman Basic Books, 210 pages, $25 I remember an uproarious night almost seven years ago at Shay’s Pub and Wine Bar in Cambridge, Mass.—my local hangout. I was entertaining a friend, also an historian, who was in town doing research. He told me that earlier in the day, he’d wandered into a nearby radical bookstore, where he...
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History News Network (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
This blog is run by Rick Shenkman , the author of the new book, Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic Books, June 2008). Mr. Shenkman, an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, is an associate professor of history at George Mason University and editor of the university's History News Network . In a recent Gallup Poll Americans were asked how they define patriotism....
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History News Network (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
This blog is run by Rick Shenkman , the author of the new book, Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic Books, June 2008). Mr. Shenkman, an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, is an associate professor of history at George Mason University and editor of the university's History News Network . This is an excerpt from the book. The excerpt was first published...
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History News Network (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
This blog is run by Rick Shenkman , the author of the new book, Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic Books, June 2008). Mr. Shenkman, an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, is an associate professor of history at George Mason University and editor of the university's History News Network . I do not wish to engage in a debate about the Iraq War. But the thought...
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History News Network (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
This blog is run by Rick Shenkman , the author of the new book, Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic Books, June 2008). Mr. Shenkman, an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, is an associate professor of history at George Mason University and editor of the university's History News Network . THE THOUGHT occurs to almost everybody, I would suppose, that politics...
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History News Network (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Mr. Shenkman, the author of the new book, Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic Books, June 2008), is an associate professor of history at George Mason University and editor of the university's History News Network. This is a story about the failure of The People and how their failure led inexorably to the Iraq War. But before we can get to that a history lesson...
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Biomedicine on Display (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
On Friday 13 June, Andrea Tone, Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine at McGill, will give a talk at Medical Museion about her new book ’The age of anxiety: A history of America’s turbulent affair with tranquilizers’ (Forthcoming on Basic Books). Among her earlier books are Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America and Medicating [...]
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Feministe (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
Passing this along for a friend: Dear Friends (and friends of friends…), The Pill is often considered one of the most important innovations of the twentieth century. As I investigate this claim for a new book—set for release on the 50th anniversary of the Pill’s FDA approval (Basic Books, [...]
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BwT (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
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Civil War Memory (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
I am currently reading and enjoying Susan Dunn's Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia (Basic Books, 2007), which explores the period between the 1820s and the Civil War. Dunn writes well, but most importantly the book...
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Yeltsin: a Life Timothy J Colton Basic Books, 616pp, £20.99
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Megan Hustad worked at Knopf , Basic Books , and Counterpoint Press before leaving publishing to write a book about the unexpectedly actually-relevant lessons of what she calls "success literature," so naturally her book -- coming in May!-- is full of what-not-to-do examples that will sound familiar to anyone who's had similar jobs. Like the time Hustad "innocently typed up a dismissive reader's report...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
(03-27) 11:55 PDT , (AP) -- "Who's Your City?" (Basic Books. 374 pages. $26.95), by Richard Florida: Everyone has heard the theory by now: Thanks to the Internet and other high-tech elements of globalization, the world is flat. That is, economic forces are...
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
Photo: Name: Keli Goff Age: 28 Job: Political pundit, author of Party Crashing: How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence , out this week from Basic Books. Neighborhood: Lower East Side Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? Jackie O. The First Lady, not the rapper. What's the best meal you've eaten in New York? French fries at Bette , followed by cheesecake...
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The Creativity Exchange (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
My publisher, Basic Books has a podcast for Who's Your City here.
