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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Wells was best known as a journalist for exposing the lies behind the justification for lynching. Negroes charged with recklessly eyeballing a White woman, or worse, were often people who had found prosperity and respect despite the constraints of Jim Crow. The lynchings put them back in their place. Wells nearly met a similar fate, but escaped as
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James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me
Lippmann, who was emerging as America’s most influential liberal journalist, understood information and propaganda to be the fundamental democratic problem under conditions of a mass population and a mass press. The crisis of democracy, he wrote, was in its essence “a crisis in journalism.” The distance between what he called “the world outside and... See more
Opinion | How to Save the American Experiment
JSTOR: Access Check
jstor.orgResilience, immanence, numen—qualities his discipline is notoriously poor in measuring.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
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The Gordon Lish Notes – The Art of Tetman Callis
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