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Category: Book Reviews

Book Reviews

The case of Lizzie Borden and other writings

11 Feb 202520 Apr 2025
2025-1| Download PDF Jordan, Elizabeth. Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan (Eds.) The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings: Tales of a Newspaper Woman. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2024,…
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The Rules of Public Relations: Legal and Ethical Issues in Contemporary Practice.

20 Jan 202522 Jan 2025
2025-1| Download PDF Myers, Cayce. The Rules of Public Relations: Legal and Ethical Issues in Contemporary Practice. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024, 328 pp. $38.00 (Paperback) ISBN: 978-1-5381-8605-3…
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Shame the Devil: How Critics Keep American Journalism Honest

5 Dec 202430 Dec 2024
2024-12| Download PDF Guglielmo, Wayne J. Shame the Devil: How Critics Keep American Journalism Honest. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023, 308 pp., $36.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-5381-7481-4.Susca, Margot. Hedged:…
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Predicting the winner: the untold story of election night 1952 and the dawn of computer forecasting.

14 Nov 2024
2024-11| Download PDF Chinoy, Ira. Predicting the Winner: The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2024, 384 pp., $38.95 (Hardcover).…
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Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy.

14 Oct 2024
2024-10| Download PDF Susca, Margot. Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy. University of Illinois Press,2024, 215 pp., $19.63 (paperback). ISBN:  978-0252087561 Reviewed by Edgar…
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Segal: Whistle-Stop Politics

19 Sep 20247 Oct 2024
2024-9 | Download PDF Segal, Edward. Whistle-Stop Politics: Campaign Trains and the Reporters Who Covered Them. Washington, DC: Rock Creek Media, 2024, 342 pp., $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 979-8988645009 Reviewed by…
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Hill, Funny Business

12 Aug 20241 Aug 2024
2024-8 | Download PDF Hill, Michael, Funny Business: The Legendary Life and Political Satire of Art Buchwald. New York: Penguin Random House, 2022, 280pp., $28 (hardcover) ISBN: 9780593229514 Reviewed by…
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Smith, Birddogs and Tough Old Broads

8 Jul 202427 Jun 2024
2024-7 | Download PDF Smith, Pete. Birddogs and Tough Old Broads: Women Journalists of Mississippi and a Century of State Politics, 1880s-1980s. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2023, 416 pp., $125.00…
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Conant, Fierce Ambition

10 Jun 20244 Jun 2024
2024-6 | Download PDF Conant, Jennet. Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins. New York New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2023, 416 pp. $32.50 (hardback). Reviewed…
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Clegg and Kennedy, What Works in Community News

13 May 20249 May 2024
2024-5 | Download PDF Clegg, Ellen, and Dan Kennedy. What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts, and the Future of the Fourth Estate. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2024,…

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Dr. Perry Parks
Editor, Journalism History
Michigan State University
Phone: 517-355-4489 (office)
Email: parksp@msu.edu

 

 

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Dr. Joseph Jones
West Virginia University
Email: Joseph.Jones@mail.wvu.edu

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