TY - JOUR
AU - Edele, Mark
AB - Reviews 195 together accounts of progressive political philosophy, Supreme Court jurispru- dence, New Deal efforts to regulate newspaper corporations, the rise of the Newspaper Guild, World War II voluntary censorship, Cold War anticommu- nism and the national security state, the Vietnam War and Nixon, the growth of government secrecy, the freedom of information movement, newspaper con- solidation and decline, and the Internet age. At every stop on this wide-ranging tour of twentieth-century America, Lebovic’s research is deep and persuasive. He draws on a rich scholarly literature while simultaneously building his own ar- guments on painstaking research in dozens of archives and special collections. A historical work that takes its reader up to the present is perhaps obligated to consider possible solutions to our current predicaments, and Lebovic does do this in a final chapter on the 2000s and 2010s. Today everyone has nearly unrestricted access to “publishing” via the Internet, but serious public affairs reporting is increasingly rare. Unable to maintain either circulation revenue or advertising revenue in the digital age, newspapers and other mainstream news media continue to lay off reporters. Meanwhile, government spin, secrecy, and the prosecution of leakers continue apace. Lebovic suggests some remedies, ranging from 
TI - Demobilized Veterans in Late Stalinist Leningrad. Soldiers to Civilians. By Robert Dale
JO - Journal of Social History
DO - 10.1093/jsh/shw073
DA - 2017-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/demobilized-veterans-in-late-stalinist-leningrad-soldiers-to-civilians-MRKiOqrfvA
SP - 195
EP - 197
VL - 51
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -