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Dan Rather In His Own Voice

Tom Alderman | Posted 12.22.2012 | Books
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Tom Alderman

We seem to iconize certain newsies which is maybe why we have two new biographies in audio and print about veteran television newsfolk: Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather.

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Citizen Murdoch: What "War at the Wall Street Journal?"

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: San Fernando Valley, Sarah Ellison, Elena Kagan, The New York Post, 20th Century Fox Television, Citizen Kane, The Wall Street Journal, WIlliam Randolph Hearst, Smart Money, Rupert Murdoch, Los Angeles Times, Harrison Grey Otis, Judith Brackley, Harpercollins, Joseph Medill, News Corp, 20th Century Fox, The Chicago Tribune, The Bancroft Family, Robert Thomson, War-at-the-Wall-Street-Journal, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Barron's, Joseph Pulitzer, Horace Greeley, Harry Chandler, Michael Wolfe, Clarence Barron, Dow Jones, The Graham Family, Marketwatch, Sulzbergers, The Man Who Owns the News, The Washington Post, Books News
Tom Alderman

We may be losing interest in newspapers but our fascination with the people who publish them has never been stronger. Our current dread-and-awe buccaneer is Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News, according to a recent bio.

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2010 Census: For Chicago, It Could Have Been Worse

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: 2010 Census, Census, Sun Belt, 2010 Census Chicago, Chicago, Horace Greeley, Illinois, Illinois Budget Crisis, Chicago News

When the 2010 census tallies are complete, they will likely reveal that Chicago has lost population again, as it has in every census since 1950. (If n...

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Lincoln and New York at the New York Historical Society

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Mathew Brady, Lincoln's Funeral Procession in New York City, Lincoln's Cooper Union Speech, Abraham Lincoln, Horace Greeley, Sam Waterston, Draft Riots, Lincoln and New York City, New York News
Thane Rosenbaum

Illinois is the Land of Lincoln, but Manhattan may ultimately have been more important in creating the legend of Lincoln. It was on this island where Lincoln's presidency was truly launched.

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