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In So Many Words: Arguments and Adventures »

Authors: Robert Schmuhl
ISBN-13: 9780268041236, ISBN-10: 0268041237
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Date Published: September 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Robert Schmuhl

Book Synopsis

Since 1975, Robert Schmuhl's writing and teaching have focused on American political culture and contemporary communication, particularly the news media. In So Many Words brings together nearly forty of Schmuhl's previously published essays, which have appeared in the Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, American Journalism Review, and Notre Dame Magazine, among others. From investigating contemporary political life, to assessing the current state of journalism, to ruminating on today's republic of letters, this volume demonstrates one writer's probing - and catholic - curiosity.

	Going our way : a new foreign policy	7
	Power, peril, and the presidency	22
	Primary madness	31
	What Teddy White wrought	36
	The living-room factor	41
	Getting ready for 2008	45
	The communal lifeline	49
	News without end	56
	Ben Hecht and Chicago	68
	The Front Page turns seventy-five	75
	Where have all the thinkers gone?	89
	Keeping words alive	99
	Never at a loss for words	102
	Pride and joy	117
	A sentence to write	120
	Rites of writing	123
	Once is not enough	126
	Process vs. product	130
	Between books	133
	Reading fellow travelers	136
	The gift of new life	139
	The reviewing stand	142
	Writers and Dublin Town	148
	Two tales of one city	151
	The end of the Wrigley connection	157
	They're everywhere	160
	Reducing the distance	163
	May 1970	167
	The grim subject of humor	178
	Being there	181
	Scout's honor	184
	An allergy to abstraction	187
	Confessions of a quote slut	191
	Lost and found	196
	Obsession	200
	A look at the new world	203