Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Alan Brinkley: The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century

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In April 2010, Janet Maslin wrote “A Magazine Master Builder” for The New York Times. When Henry Luce graduated from the Hotchkiss School i...
Monday, January 17, 2011

David Kirkpatrick: The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

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In July 2010, James Harkin wrote a review of the David Kirkpatrick book for The Guardian. Last month Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief ...

William H. Draper: The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs

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Crowd gathering on Wall Street after the 1929 crash In The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepre...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Sarah Vowell: The Wordy Shipmates

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U.S. President Ronald Reagan In January 1989, U.S. President Ronald Reagan issued his “Farewell Address to the Nation” from the Oval O...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Bob Woodward: Obama's Wars

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Lyndon B. Johnson,  South Vietnam, 1966 In December 2009, Michael Lindenberger wrote “Obama's Afghanistan decision evokes LBJ's 1...

Dan Charnas: The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop

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In December 2010, an NPR Staff writer wrote, “How Hip0Hop Became a Cash Machine” for the show, All Things Considered. Thirty years ago, hip...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Tim Wu: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

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Theodore Newton Vail, born July 16, 1845, was a U.S. telephone industrialist. His philosophy of using closed systems, centralized power, an...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Seth Mnookin: The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear

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The MMR vaccine controversy refers to claims that autism spectrum disorders are a direct result to having the MMR vaccine administered. MMR ...