I’ve been waiting for a book that covers what 45 is doing to the press. It is
now on my list of divversions until the Dodgers spring training starts.
Abby
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Marvin Kalb's New Book Is on Bookshare
That’s terrific. Thank you. I’ll have to put it on my long list. I have to
admit that the next non fiction book that I want to read is the one that
appeared on BARD last night, Michelle Obama’s “Becoming”. By the way, is the
Kalb book long?
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Marvin Kalb's New Book Is on Bookshare
Hey Guys, some of you will want to know that I just got the email that my scan
of Marvin Kalb’s latest book, Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press,
the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy, has been added to
Bookshare.
I would have gotten it up sooner, but I was waiting for the publisher, The
Brookings Institution Press, to send it up. They’ve given other books to
Bookshare, but not this one for some reason. I finally gave up and decided to
buy a copy and get it in myself. That’s one of the reasons I like Bookshare so
much. I can choose to add books to the library. It’s a lot harder, if it’s
possible at all, to have a say in getting books added to other accessible
libraries.
So here it is:
https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/2297873
Here’s the synopsis from inside flaps:
""The FAKE NEWS media is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!"
President Trump tweeted this declaration less than a month after his
inauguration.
Attacks on the media have been a hallmark of his presidential campaign and style
of governance. This represents a dangerous and dramatic turning point.
Twentieth-century
dictators--Stalin, Hitler, and Mao--all denounced their critics, especially the
press,
as "enemies of the people." Their goal was to delegitimize the work of the
press--effectively
calling it "fake news," thereby creating confusion in the public's mind about
what's
real and what isn't, what can be trusted and what can't be.
This also appears to be Trump's goal. In Enemy of the People, Marvin Kalb, an
award-winning
American journalist, writes with passion about his concerns for the future of
American
democracy. Can it withstand Trump's unrelenting attacks on the press?
As Kalb shows, the press has been a bulwark of American democracy. He writes
about
Edward R. Murrow's courageous broadcasts that turned the cold light of reality
on
Senator Joseph McCarthy's "Red Scare" threats in the early 1950s. He also
vividly
reminds us of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's reporting during the Watergate
scandal,
which led to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
Without a fearless, robust press, democracy is in peril. Kalb's book is an
eye-opening
indictment of President Trump's efforts to debase and dehumanize the American
media--and
put the future of America's democracy in question."
Evan
