A companion web site to C-SPAN's author interview series Home | Archives | Book Talk | Bookstore | My Booknotes | About Looking Ahead June 16 Samantha Power, A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide 23 Diana Preston, Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy 30 John Leonard, Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Cultures July 7 Sandra Mackey, The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy ...

McLuhan makes this point brilliantly: most television is good news. The good news is the advertising. That's what it's about, and the bad news--the dead guys or the crime-- is to get the suckers into the tent, get the emotional pitch up. . . . It's the freak show in order to sell the snow cone. Lewis Lapham in dialogue 'I'm just curious: how do you propose to carry on the struggle against the ...

Lewis Lapham, The Consolations of Vanity, Harper's, Vol 294, no. 1771 (December 1997) There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. When Ted Turner presented the United Nations with the promise of $1 billion last September, I was in the midst of rereading W. A. Swanberg's biography of William Randolph Hearst, and the coincidence offered a perspective ...