An informal survey of journalists and academics resulted in a handful of suggested readings that update Sandburg’s 92-year-old list. It’s at least an interesting starting point for water cooler/barstool debates: International relations: Correspondents Joe Galloway ("We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young") or Robert Fisk ("The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the … [Read more...] about New book titles
Carl Sandburg’s advice
More than a decade after St. Louis editor William Marion Reedy helped launch Carl Sandburg’s long career as a poet, Sandburg still saw himself as a journalist – and he offered advice to fellow newspapermen. His 1918-1919 series of essays, "Books the newspaperman ought to read," ran in Pep, the monthly in-house magazine for Scripps' Newspaper Enterprise Association around the … [Read more...] about Carl Sandburg’s advice