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- My Upcoming Book on the 2008 Campaign: How to Contact Me -- Or Even OrderNovember 3 2008
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I have completed my book on the 2008 campaign for publication next month. The title is Why Obama Won and it will surely be one of the first full-length books on the race, and it goes right to and past election day. Much of the focus is on new media vs. old media, the Netroots, and why campaigns will never be the same. Everything's there, from Stephen Colbert's brief campaign to the rise and fall of Joe the Plumber.
As some may know, I have been a constant blogger at Huffington Post and Daily Kos this year, besides serving as editor of Editor & Publisher and its hot new blog, The E&P Pub. This will be my tenth book and follows my book earlier this year on Iraq and the media, So Wrong for So Long. I also authored two well known books on American campaigns for Random House, Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady (the Nixon-Douglas race) and The Campaign of the Century (Upton Sinclair and the birth of media politics).
If you are interested in pre-ordering the book and getting updates, drop me a line at: epic1934@aol.com. Or leave your name - Learn More About My Book on Iraq and the Media HereOctober 8 2008
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Here's how to easily get So Wrong for So Long, which covers over five years of Iraq and the media (from Judy Miller to Stephen Colbert) and features a preface by Bruce Springsteen with an introduction by Joseph L. Galloway.
You can do it via the links at the left under the book cover (clicking on the cover won't work), which take you to Amazon or Barnes and Noble, or go to Powell's online or order it at bookstores. I'm grateful for the tremendous response so far, ranging from appearances on the Bill Moyers Journal, Jim Lehrer NewsHour, NPR, Keith Olbermann, and Democracy Now! to great reviews in the L.A. Times and Vanity Fair. It has been a featured selection at Talking Points Memo and FireDogLake, excerpted at Salon, with articles from it at Mother Jones, Huff Post, DailyKos, and a dozen other leading sites. The blurbs for the book follow. Thanks again for your support.
"Greg Mitchell has given us a razor-sharp critique of how the media and the government connived in one of the great blunders of American foreign policy. Every aspiring journalist, every veteran, every pundit—and every citizen who cares about the difference between illusion and reality, propaganda and the truth, and looks to the press to help keep them separate—should read this book. Twice."— Bill Moyers
"With the tragic war in Iraq dragging on, and the drumbeat for new conflicts growing louder, this is more than a five-year history of the bi - Sorry, folks this blog is on hiatusSeptember 14 2008
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As some may know, I posted hundreds of times here this past spring and into the summer but then slacked off due to blogging demands elsewhere -- and now the arrival of the first two Editor & Publisher blogs after 124 years, where I am posting often. Check out The E & P Pub for commentary and videos at: http://www.eandppub.com/
And who knows, I may be back here again soon.... GM - When I covered my first Democratic Convention: Chicago, 1968August 24 2008
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A look back at an epic event: for me and the country.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003841508 - Sunday transcendenceAugust 17 2008
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A little comedy break in our regular Beethoven feature, courtesy of Harry Shearer: Condi Rice does "Fur Elise."
http://www.mydamnchannel.com/Harry_Shearer/Music_Videos/GymBuds_871.aspx
