This edited volume explores the democratic dangers posed by a political press that emphasizes electoral competition, strategy, entertainment, and what Jay Rosen calls “savviness”—praising candidates for being politically smart rather than being honest—in its coverage of a political landscape dominated by a looming authoritarian threat. Contributors document how the American and global political press have failed to fulfill their role in elections and demonstrate how authoritarians have use...

Two decades of work on one poet, by a scholar who spent his career on him.Maurice Mendelson submitted a doctoral dissertation on Whitman in Moscow in 1956, wrote the foreword to a Soviet Whitman selection in 1954, and marked the centenary with articles in Pravda and Oktyabr in 1955. This is the fruit of that long attention, and it shows on every page.He works from the documents. He uses Whitman's Brooklyn Eagle journalism at length and in detail - the editorship of 1846 to ...