Eric Alterman
Teacher, historian, journalist, author and media critic
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- Bachelors History Cornell University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Eric Alterman is an American historian, journalist, author, media critic, blogger, and educator. He is a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College and the author of eleven books. From 1995 to 2020, Alterman was "The Liberal Media" columnist for The Nation. He is a contributing writer there, and at The American Prospect, where under a two-year grant he wrote the newsletter, Altercation, until January 27, 2023. In his farewell newsletter column Alterman stated that he opened a Substack page also entitled, Altercation, on January 21. 2023, and that although publication plans were only in development, he was accepting free subscriptions.
Eric Alterman's Published Works
Published Works
- What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News (2003) (92)
- When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences (2004) (61)
- Out of print The death and life of the American newspaper (2007) (53)
- Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992) (25)
- Who Speaks for America?: Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy (1999) (11)
- Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics (1993) (9)
- The Politics of Fear after 9/11 (2014) (9)
- It Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999) (8)
- The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama (2012) (7)
- Adjibolosoo, Senyo. Developing Civil Society: Social Order and the Human Factor. San Diego: Ashgate, 2006. Alcock, John. Animal Behavior. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer, 1993. Alexander, Richard D. The Biology of Moral Systems. Hawthorne (1990) (6)
- Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama (2011) (4)
- Fear: What Is It Good For? (2014) (4)
- The Professors, the Press, the Think Tanks--And Their Problems. (2011) (4)
- Unequal Lives (2016) (3)
- THE USES AND ABUSES OF CLAUSEWITZ (1987) (2)
- Sound and fury : the Washington punditocracy and the collapse of American politics (1994) (2)
- Congress and Reagan's foreign policy (1984) (1)
- Challenging media: If his campaign is anything to go by, President Trump is likely to restrict freedom of the press (2016) (1)
- Should the Green Party Stand Down in 2020? (2020) (0)
- Alterman Conference on Geometric Algebra (2016) (0)
- We Take You Live (1998) (0)
- Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP. By Mary C. Breiman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995 and Barry Goldwater. By Robert Alan Goldberg. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995 (1996) (0)
- 1. Growing Up with Bruce Springsteen (2019) (0)
- Reviewers for Volume 31 (2010) (0)
- America's Political Class under Fire: The Twentieth Century's Great Culture War. By David A. Horowitz. (New York: Routledge, 2003. xii, 290 pp. Cloth, $90.00, ISBN 0-415-94690-5. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-415-94691-3.) (2004) (0)
- The Politics of Fear after 9/11 (2014) (0)
- Something about Christopher (2010) (0)
- Media Nation: The Political History of News in Modern America (2019) (0)
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