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Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy
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Overview
That, it seems, is also Trump’s goal. In Enemy of the People, Marvin Kalb, an award-winning American journalist with more than six decades of experience both as a journalist and media observer, writes with passion about why we should fear for the future of American democracy because of the unrelenting attacks by the Trump administration on the press.
As his new book shows, the press has been a bulwark in the defense of democracy. Kalb writes about Edward R. Murrow’s courageous reporting on Senator Joseph McCarthy’s “red scare” theatrics in the early 1950s, which led to McCarthy’s demise. He reminds us of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s reporting in the early 1970s that led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
Today, because of revolutionary changes in journalism, no Murrow is ready at the battlements. Journalism has been severely weakened. Yet, without a virile, strong press, democracy is in peril.
Kalb’s book is a frightening indictment of President Trump’s efforts to delegitimize the American press—and put the future of our democracy in question.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780815735311 |
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Publisher: | Brookings Institution Press |
Publication date: | 09/25/2018 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 200 |
File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Marvin Kalb is senior adviser to the Pulitzer Center, a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings, Murrow Professor emeritus at Harvard, and former network correspondent at CBS and NBC News. He is the author, most recently, of The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956—Khrushchev, Stalin’s Ghost, and a Young American in Russia and Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War.
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Crossing a Flashing Red Line
2. From Nero to Trump
3. “The Appalling Becomes Excusable”
4. The Comparison Is Unmistakable
5. “He Had a Certain Raw Wit and Charm”
6. Ike vs. McCarthy
7. Senator, Meet Edward R. Murrow
8. From the War in Europe to the War in America
9. “Otherwise, It Is Not America”
10. A Free Press, Now More Than Ever
Notes
Index