‘Adventures in PR’ Captures Rare Hollywood Celeb Insights
Fri, May 20, 2016
By George McQuade
Food publicity legend Leo Pearlstein shares inside stories and nostalgic photos of Hollywood in new book.
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Food publicity legend Leo Pearlstein shares inside stories and nostalgic photos of Hollywood in new book.
Journalist Jerry Oppenheimer’s new biography of RFK shreds the image of Camelot and gives the reader an unflinching look at the Kennedy family counter to their crafted public image.
In The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech [Regnery], USA Today columnist and FOX News Channel commentator Kirsten Powers examines many examples of what she calls the “illiberal left,” those who look to silence debate and impose viewpoints of morality, education, fairness and many other subjects.
Few books written during the 2016 presidential race will shed any real light on the issues and the personalities of the race the way Peter Schweizer's Clinton Cash does.
In Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Journalism from Around the World, Anya Schiffrin has compiled examples of effective and eye-opening reporting on a variety of topics on nearly every continent.
Retired PR counselor Larry Roth has written The Nazi Account, a novel based on Carl Byoir & Associates’ work for the Hitler government in the 1930s. It led to the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
In "All the Truth is Out," Matt Bai, Yahoo News national political correspondent, revisits Gary Hart scandal. It was a watershed moment for politics and the media and Bai presents it in a clearer focus than most people remember.
No book, conference agenda, white paper or serious discussion about the future of corporate communications in any forum going forward will be complete without a reading of auto PR vet Jason Vines' new tome, What Did Jesus Drive?
In his superbly reported book, Clinton Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine [Broadside Books, 2014], Daniel Halper, a reporter with The Weekly Standard, describes the Clinton family’s rehabilitation with the public, their friends and their enemies.
Floyd Abrams, one of the most highly regarded First Amendment attorneys, gives many examples of the conflicts inherent with the guarantee of free speech in his new book, Friend of the Court: On the Front Lines of the First Amendment.
A former Washington Post scribe chronicles his double life as a crime reporter who secretly battled crack addiction in DC in the 1980s and '90s.
"The Last Magazine" novel written by sex, drugs and rock & roll journalist Michael Hastings is a riveting affair that captures the Big Media World just at the beginning of its fall from grace.
The release of Hillary Clinton's Hard Choices and Elizabeth Warren's A Fighting Chance has launched the race to create an image for Democrat primary voters.
"Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," a funny but biting critique of the Iraqi invasion and America's indifference to the conflict, is the best book on the practice of PR since Christopher Buckley’s masterpiece, "Thank You for Smoking" of 1994.
In his latest book, Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You, Greg Gutfeld, host of Fox News Channel’s "Red Eye" and co-host of "The Five," posits that Americans are facing an onslaught of beliefs and attitudes that many people find offensive or laughable.
Paddy Chayefsky’s prophetic “Network” was a movie almost forty years ahead of its time, a film highlighting the “comicization’ of the news business.
New York magazine reporter Gabriel Sherman’s widely discussed new book on Roger Ailes is a gossipy look at the inside of Fox News and one of the most influential news executives in history.
I've always felt that people who work in the top echelons of political communications are aggressive, bright and great at what they do. It is pressure cooked, intense all the time, and work which is high-profile and cut-throat - so much so that if you do a bad job you’ll find yourself out of a job pretty damn quickly.
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