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Reviews
Books and URLs of interest to journalists are always welcome. Books received are listed and may be reviewed later.
Recent lists include the following:
Cruel Britannia, by Nick Cohen. Readers of The Observer (London) will welcome this collection of some of Cohen's biting comments on the Britain of Blairism - a government without opposition, and generous with its principles. Verso, £16. (June 99)
Some Times in America, by Alexander Chancellor. The author of this collection in a regular Guardian columnist, formerly Washington reporter of the Independent, and briefly at the New Yorker under Tina Brown. Chancellor has been described as the reporter's reporter - drinking, smoking, lounging, giving an impression of careless amusement, but taking it all in and writing it up with professional gusto. Bloomsbury £16.99. (June 99)
The Surgeon of Crowthorne, by Simon Winchester, a former Guardian foreign correspondent. This is the story of Dr W.C.Minor, inmate of an insane asylum who was an important contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary. The Observer reviewer, David Horspool, says: "Not all examples of the 'true historical thriller' genre are successful, but Winchester's book is a triumph of imaginative research." Penguin, paper, £5.95. (June 99)
Stealing Thunder is a post-Cold War thriller by Peter Millar, foreign correspondent and reviewer, who makes his leading man a journalist. Well-paced, fully-fleshed as to characters, many of them major players of the time (based on the real story of atomic spies in the US), this is a good read. Bloomsbury £16.99. (June 99)
News in the Global Sphere (a study of CNN), by IngridVolkmer, paper, £14.95. CNN Making News in the Global Market, by Don M. Flournoy and Robert K. Stewart, paper, £14.95.
Secret State, Silent Press, by Richard Keeble (paper, £14.95). It is sub-titled New militarism, the Gulf, and the modern image of warfare. Dr Keeble is director of the journalism and social science BA programme at City University, London.
Global Newsrooms, Local Audiences (a study of the Eurovision News Exchange), by Akiba Cohen, Mark Levy, Michael Gurevitch and Itzhak Roeh, paper, £14.95. Public Broadcasting for the 21st Century, edited by Marc Raboy, paper, £16.95.
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