Enemy of the People, Marvin Kalb
Enemy of the People, Marvin Kalb
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Enemy of the People
Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy

Author: Marvin Kalb

Narrator: Christopher Grove

Unabridged: 5 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/09/2019

Synopsis

Shortly after assuming office in January 2017, President Donald Trump accused the press of being an "enemy of the American people." Attacks on the media had been a hallmark of Trump's presidential campaign, but this charge marked a dramatic turning point: language like this ventured into dangerous territory. Twentieth-century dictators—notably, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao—had all denounced their critics, especially the press, as "enemies of the people." Their goal was to delegitimize the work of the press as "fake news" and create confusion in the public mind about what's real and what isn't; what can be trusted and what can't be.

That, it seems, is also Trump's goal. In Enemy of the People, Marvin Kalb, an award-winning American journalist with more than six decades of experience both as a journalist and media observer, writes with passion about why we should fear for the future of American democracy because of the unrelenting attacks by the Trump administration on the press.

As his new book shows, the press has been a bulwark in the defense of democracy. Kalb writes about Edward R. Murrow's courageous reporting on Senator Joseph McCarthy's "red scare" theatrics in the early 1950's, which led to McCarthy's demise.

About Marvin Kalb

Marvin Kalb is senior adviser to the Pulitzer Center, a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings, Murrow Professor emeritus at Harvard, and former network correspondent at CBS and NBC News. He is the author of The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956-Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia and Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Buck on November 02, 2018

I was surprised to see how few ratings and reviews of this book there are on Goodreads (four ratings and no reviews when I started it) especially considering its subject and author. Marvin Kalb is certainly a well known journalist. I learned about the book when Kalb was interviewed about it on a TV......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on September 07, 2019

Brilliant. A timely and powerful work by Kalb.......more

Goodreads review by Jason on March 31, 2019

I had the privilege this week of listening to a lecture from, and then sharing a lunch table with, the author. At nearly 90 years old, the Brookings Institution scholar and former Meet the Press anchor is a supremely interesting intellectual and gentleman who related great stories of his life in aca......more

Goodreads review by Vicki on March 11, 2019

First of all, if you're a President Trump supporter, you likely would not like this book. But if you're an open minded person, and don't mind then Of course, read it. If you care about freedom of the press, and our democracy, I totally recommend this book. This book brings to light dangers that could......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on April 11, 2024

I hate that we have heard nothing but Donald Trump news for the past 8 years. With every book that is written about him and all the facts of his narcissism, media obsession, personality, lack of knowledge, and lack of skills for one of the most important jobs in the world. And YET you have sycophant......more

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