Jul 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
At Paper Cuts, the blog of the New York Times Book Review, Mick Sussman describes what happened when he went to Amazon.com recently seeking a copy of Rick Perlstein’s study of the Goldwater campaign of 1964, Before The Storm. Sussman, who wanted to read that...
Jul 15, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Ever since real-estate mogul Sam Zell gained control of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Baltimore Sun, these newspapers have seen one staff cutback and executive shakeup after another. Yesterday was no exception, as David Hiller, publisher of the Times,...
Jul 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Over in the “showbiz” area of CNN’s site, Todd Leopold interviews Rick Perlstein about Nixonland, and some of the TV programming of the era is discussed in the context of the historian’s America-in-conflict thesis, such as the Smothers Brothers...
Jul 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
I rather suspect Sen. Barack Obama is welcoming former Gov. Jesse Ventura’s reported plans to run against Al Franken and Sen. Norm Coleman for the latter’s seat. After all, once “The Mind” starts making the rounds of CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC,...
Jul 8, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As noted by John Taylor below, Marcus Brauchli, a 25-year veteran of the Wall Street Journal, who was its managing editor from April 18, 2007, until resigning just over a year later following Rupert Murdoch’s takeover, has been named the executive editor of the...
