Media/Journalism

Beyond the Echo Chamber

Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media

Jessica Clark, Tracy Van Slyke

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: A concise, paradigm-shifting strategy guide to achieving political impact via the progressive media

A Bomb in Every Issue

How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America

Peter Richardson

Now in paperback: A lavishly praised "lively history"  (Los Angeles Times) of Ramparts—the magazine that brought the New Left into American living rooms in the '60s and made an indelible imprint on American journalism

Fakers

Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders

Paul Maliszewski

For anyone who has ever lied—or been lied to—true-life tales about faking, from Clifford Irving to Stephen Glass, by an award-winning writer

P.S.

Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening

Studs Terkel

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL — The Pulitzer prize-winning oral historian and nonagenarian makes a selection of his favorite unpublished writings, broadcasts, and interviews

The Wrong Guys

Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four

Tom Wells, Richard A. Leo

A compulsively readable true-crime tale, with a damning argument about the relationship between the death penalty and false confessions, based on an innocence project case

Submersion Journalism

Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine

Edited by Bill Wasik

Fifteen sparkling works of inside-out reportage—Harper's own house brand of "submersion journalism"—an unapologetically aggressive approach to reporting in an age of lies

The New Blue Media

How Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Jon Stewart and Company Are Transforming Progressive Politics

Theodore Hamm

The penetrating-and entertaining-story of the rise of a new generation of liberal media figures, from Jon Stewart and Michael Moore to Moveon and the Blue Blogosphere

The Devil in Dover

An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America

Lauri Lebo

NOW IN PAPERBACK In the tradition of H.L. Mencken, a gifted reporter’s “unapologetic indictment of intelligent design, fundamentalist Christianity, and American journalism’s Insistence on objectivity in the face of clear untruths” (Columbia Journalism Review)

Communication Revolution

Critical Junctures and the Future of Media

Robert W. McChesney

NOW IN PAPERBACK A controversial critique of media studies from the writer Mark Crispin Miller calls "the greatest of our media historians"

The Big Eddy Club

David Rose

Race, injustice, and serial murder in the deep south—Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil with an investigative edge

Digital Destiny

New Media and the Future of Democracy

Jeff Chester

The celebrated media advocate's clarion call for new media to serve the public instead of corporate interests—and what's involved in this high-stakes struggle

Stranger in a Strange Land

Encounters in the Disunited States

Gary Younge

With a sharp pencil, and a sharper eye, our protagonist shades the contours of a fractured nation

Iraq

The Logic of Withdrawal

Anthony Arnove

A forceful argument for the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq

Tragedy and Farce

How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy

John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney

NOW IN PAPERBACK How American media are failing our democracy, by the authors Bill Moyers calls “the Paul Revere and Tom Paine of our time”

Gone Tomorrow

The Hidden Life of Garbage

Heather Rogers

NOW IN PAPERBACK A sobering exploration of our high-octane trash output that was named an editor’s choice by the New York Times and a nonfiction choice by The Guardian

Spanking the Donkey

Dispatches from the Dumb Season

Matt Taibbi

An up-close look at the democratic race for the White House—it isn’t pretty

The Freedom

Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq

Christian Parenti

NOW IN PAPERBACK An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq

Fighting Words

An Illustrated History of Newspaper Accounts of the Civil War

Andrew S. Coopersmith

NOW IN PAPERBACK An intriguing picture of life during the Civil War, through the newspapers of the period

Our Unfree Press

100 Years of Radical Media Criticism

Edited by Robert W. McChesney and Ben Scott

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From a bestselling authority on corporations and the media, an anthology about the fight to keep the media free from corporate interference

Moyers on America

A Journalist and His Times

Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers's vision for America in this crucial election year

30 Satires

Lewis Lapham

A leading political satirist skewers the pretensions and vanities of America’s equestrian classes

The Dream Life

Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties

J. Hoberman

A brilliant cultural history detailing the fascinating relationship between movies and American society in the 1960s

Radical Hollywood

The Untold Story Behind America’s Favorite Movies

Paul Buhle, Dave Wagner

A controversial and fascinating rewriting of the history of cinema’s golden age

Movies on Trial

The Legal System on the Silver Screen

Anthony Chase

Muckraking!

The Journalism That Changed America

Edited by Judith Serrin and William Serrin

Over 100 classics of American investigative journalism, from Tom Paine to Bob Woodward

Rich Media, Poor Democracy

Communication Politics in Dubious Times

Robert W. McChesney

The Business of Journalism

Ten Leading Reporters and Editors on the Perils and Pitfalls of the Press

Edited by William Serrin

Slanting the Story

The Forces That Shape the News

Trudy Lieberman

The Studs Terkel Interviews

Film and Theater

Studs Terkel

PAPERBACK An elegant new edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s “richly entertaining”(Publishers Weekly) conversations with the masters of stage and screen

Conglomerates and the Media

Patricia Aufderheide, Erik Barnouw, Richard M. Cohen, Thomas Frank, David Lieberman, Mark Crispin Miller, Gene Roberts, Thomas Schatz

On Television

Pierre Bourdieu

Smoke and Mirrors

Violence, Television, and Other American Cultures

John Leonard

We the Media

A Citizens' Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy

Edited by Don Hazen and Julie Winokur

China Pop

How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture

Jianying Zha

The Way Things Aren’t

Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error

FAIR

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