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First edition (publ. Knopf)

The Powers That Be is a 1979 book by David Halberstam about the American media.[1][2] It focuses on CBS, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Time.

Critical reception

The Globe and Mail wrote: "The trouble is that the Halberstam of Vietnam, and of The Best and the Brightest, has become David Halberstam: institution, and like others who take themselves too seriously, his prose suffers."[3]

References

  1. ^ "News Report". archive.nytimes.com.
  2. ^ Lemann, Nicholas (May 5, 1979). "The Power, The Glory, The Media, The Men, The Money, The Irony, The Symbols, America, The Meaning of It All". The New Republic.
  3. ^ Wolfe, Morris (9 June 1979). "Voluminous". The Globe and Mail. p. P44.

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