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In So Many Words: Arguments and Adventures
In So Many Words Arguments and Adventures
Author: Robert Schmuhl
Since 1975, Robert Schmuhl's writing and teaching have focused on American political culture and contemporary communication, particularly the news media. In So Many Words brings together nearly forty of Schmuhl's previously published essays, which have appeared in the Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribun...  more », Boston Globe, and American Journalism Review,among others. From investigating contemporary political life, to assessing the current state of journalism, to ruminating on today's republic of letters, this volume demonstrates one writer's probing—and catholic—curiosity. Arranged thematically, with the essays divided into three sections—Matters Political and Journalistic, Matters Literary, and Matters Personal—In So Many Words invites readers to ponder a wide range of issues, such as the debate over preemptive war, the compositional idiosyncrasies of wordsmiths, and the vagaries of media punditry. Variety, in both subjects considered and approaches pursued, is a hallmark of this collection. The phrase "in so many words" carries two meanings: precision or exactitude in language and candor or plain speaking. This is a book that lives up to its title by presenting arguments and dramatizing adventures in no uncertain terms.
ISBN-13: 9780268041236
ISBN-10: 0268041237
Publication Date: 9/15/2006
Pages: 224
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Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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