Negative Space: tDoPB
- Advice to Sarah Palin From the Know-It-Alls
- A member of the “Know-It-All Syndicate” offers advice to Sarah Palin on how to step down from politics and return to the kitchen.
- All the President’s Men
- Probably one of the most influential events in journalism history made into one of the best films of the seventies.
- All Too Human
- George Stephanopoulos writes about his time in the Clinton campaign and White House. He also talks about his hero worship and subsequent disillusionment.
- The Blog of War
- Great collection of Iraq and Afghanistan-related milblog posts. The Blog of War covers every war from the perspective of the individuals who take part: friends, spouses, and the soldiers themselves.
- Boss
- From 1955 to 1976, Richard J. Daley was the mayor of Chicago and the undisputed boss of Chicago politics. In 1971, reporter Mike Royko published a book about Daley’s rise to power and his firm grip on it. Boss is a fascinating story of the Chicago machine that still in some form exists today.
- Fighting for the American Dream
- Joe the Plumber writes about his experiences at the center of one of the most vicious smear campaigns in recent memory.
- Fit to Print: A.M. Rosenthal and His Times
- Abe Rosenthal ran the New York Times from the late sixties to the mid eighties. He made lots of enemies, took sides in New York’s elections, and treated people as if only he were real. But he also turned the Times into a more profitable entity that reported news instead of press releases and stories instead of raw data.
- A fragile alliance
- The tea party and the Republican party alliance is a fragile one: it requires support on both sides. The media and tea partiers recognize this. Republican party leadership needs to figure it out yesterday.
- The Legend of the Nightriders
- Hundreds of people dead, and almost no records, in rural Louisiana following the Civil War. Truth? Legend? Or something in between? Jack Peebles takes newly-discovered newspaper articles and shows us the possibility of truth in old stories about the Harrisonburg Road.
- Losing America
- If someone were to tell you they were reading a book subtitled “Confronting a reckless and arrogant presidency” you’d probably think it was written by a right-winger, rather than a short-sighted beltway insider who can’t see out of the beltway box to save his own reputation.
- The Prince
- Machiavelli’s “The Prince” is an odd bit of ephemera from the sixteenth century. It purports to teach a newly-made prince how to maintain his principality.
- Reading after midnight
- Nothing keens my writing axe more than knowing I’m about to read it out loud to a bunch of other writers. That one of them is Mark Clements definitely helps. And it is especially true when I’m doing something odd like tDoPB. Which I’m keeping a bit of a secret right now because I’m still not sure I’m going to be able to pull it off.
- Shattered Glass, Shattered Illusions
- Great movie, great commentary on the DVD with directory Billy and New Republic editor Chuck Lane.
- Taking Heat
- This is a very interesting look at the biases of the top echelons of the media, from a pre-2008 perspective.
- Throw Them All Out
- IPO nowadays stands for Invest in Politicians Often. Investing in politicians brings huge returns.
- Washington Goes to War
- The Washington Metropolitan area’s population increased by over 50% between 1930 and 1941. Another 70,000 arrived in 1942, and 5,000 new federal workers were added every month. The reason was war, and the rumor of war. The book covers the period from 1939 to 1945, with much wandering in between. Part of it is from Brinkley’s personal memories of the period, and much more from interviews.
- Weblog killed the paperback star
- Are blogs, twitter, and other forms of mass online communication undermining the need for fiction?
