[Peace] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:16358] Nation Publisher Navasky in Chicago to Promote New Book

[Alfred Kagan]

FYI

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Gulyas, Carol" <cgulyas at colum.edu>
> Date: April 18, 2005 1:07:44 PM CDT
> To: SRRT Action Council <srrtac-l at ala.org>
> Cc: "David Perrotta" <dperrotta at thenation.com>
> Subject: [SRRTAC-L:16358] Nation Publisher Navasky in Chicago to  
> Promote New Book
> Reply-To: srrtac-l at ala.org
>
> NATION PUBLISHER NAVASKY IN CHICAGO TO PROMOTE NEW BOOK
>
>  Free Lecture and American Library Association Convention Appearance
>
>  For Immediate Release:
>  April 15, 2006
>
> Contact:
> Mike Webb, 212-209-5426
>
>  Victor Navasky, publisher of The Nation, America's most read  
> political journal, will travel to Chicago in late June to participate  
> in the annual meeting of the American Library Association and to  
> promote his new book A MATTER OF OPINION (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux;  
> May 2005).
>
> On Sunday June 26 at 8 pm Navasky will discuss “The Case Against  
> Fairness, Balance and Objectivity” and sign copies of his new book.   
> The lecture is free and open to the public and will be held in the  
> Congress Lounge on the 2nd floor of Roosevelt University’s historic  
> Auditorium Building at 430 S. Michigan Ave. -- conveniently close to  
> the Chicago Hilton, which serves as this year’s ALA Annual Meeting  
> headquarters hotel.
>
>  On Sunday, June 26, from 1:00 to 2:30 pm, Navasky will also  
> participate in an ALA panel discussion sponsored by Friends of  
> Libraries USA.  Titled, “Fighting the Good Fight – Writers on the 1st  
> Amendment,” the event will also include Floyd Abrams, Linda  
> Greenhouse, and Cass Sunstein and will culminate with a book-signing.   
> For further information, contact  FOLUSA at http://www.folusa.org/
>
>  On Saturday, June 25, Navasky will be on the ALA exhibit floor to  
> sign books from 2:00 to 4:00 pm at The Nation’s booth (#436). 
>
>  In his Sunday evening lecture, Navasky will draw on his nearly 30  
> years of experience as editor and publisher of The Nation to make the  
> case against follow-the-pack mainstream journalism and for opinion  
> journalism in general and the journal of opinion in particular.  
>
>  In A MATTER OF OPINION, Navasky weaves a wonderfully entertaining  
> narrative that spans decades filled with constant investigating,  
> writing, and reporting. In this scintillating and candid reflection on  
> his journalistic experiences, Navasky recounts his days at Swarthmore  
> College; his time in Alaska as an Army recruit writing for the Base  
> paper; his education at Yale Law School, where he began the  
> opinion/satire magazine, Monocle; his work for The New York Times; his  
> freelance projects and books; and, ultimately, in a stroke of luck,  
> his appointment at The Nation.
>   
>  Navasky tells of his innovative efforts to find money to keep The  
> Nation afloat and to keep its pages lively, honest, and relevant, and  
> he embellishes it with unforgettable stories – about his colleagues  
> and opponents, from E. L. Doctorow to William F. Buckley, Jr.; his  
> heroes, from I. F. Stone to Jürgen Habermas; and his predecessors,  
> from Daniel Defoe to Carey McWilliams.  His lively reflections on his  
> journalistic experiences are also an extraordinary political document  
> -- a spirited, provocative argument for independent journals of  
> opinion as vital to the health of democracy.
>
>  More information on the book is available at:
> http://www.holtzbrinckpublishers.com/FSG/search/SearchBookDisplay.asp? 
> BookKey=1924843
>
>  A pre-publication review from Kirkus is at:
> http://www.kirkusreviews.com/kirkusreviews/search/search_display.jsp? 
> vnu_content_id=1000790770
>
>  In addition to his role at The Nation, Mr. Navasky is Delacorte  
> Professor of Journalism at Columbia University.  He is the author of   
> Kennedy Justice (1971) and Naming Names (reissued in 2003), which won  
> a 1982 National Book Award. He lives in New York City.
>
>  
>
> Carol Gulyas
>
> Reference and Instruction Librarian
>
> Columbia College Chicago
>
> 624 S. Michigan Ave.
>
> Chicago, IL  60605
>
> 312.344.7072
>
>  
>


Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801

tel. 217-333-6519
fax 217-333-2214
akagan at uiuc.edu
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