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And Then There’s This
How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture
$25.95  And Then There’s This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture is Harper’s Magazine editor Bill Wasik’s study of the twenty-first century’s rambunctious new-media culture. He covers this world as a journalist, following the rise and fall of “buzz bands” in the online music scene, and visiting viral marketers, political trendsetters, and online provocateurs. He also wades in as a participant conducting hilarious experiments: an e-mail fad (which turned into the worldwide “flash mob” sensation), a viral website in a month-long competition, a fake blog that attempts to create “antibuzz,” and more. Wasik tries to make sense of his often surprising data by surveying what real social science experiments have taught us about the effects of distraction, stimulation, and crowd behavior on the human mind. Equal parts report, memoir, manifesto, and deconstruction of a decade, And Then There’s This captures better than any other book the way technology is changing our culture. |
Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper’s Magazine
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In recent years, Harper’s has fostered an exciting brand of journalism that is participatory, sometimes even undercover in approach. Submersion Journalism collects the best of these dispatches in the radical first person.
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How Washington Lobbyists fought to flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship
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Ken Silverstein, Washington Editor of Harper's Magazine, goes undercover to find out the truth about how influence is bought and sold in Washington—even to corrupt foreign regimes.
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The Conyers Report on the 2004 Presidential Election.
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The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America
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“Written in a personal, engrossing style, John MacArthur draws your attention page after page with enraging and motivating
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How Washington Lobbyists fought to flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship
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Ken Silverstein, Washington Editor of Harper's Magazine, goes undercover to find out the truth about how influence is bought and sold in Washington—even to corrupt foreign regimes.
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In 30 Satires, the leading political satirist skewers the pretensions and vanities of America's equestrian classes.
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America as a spendthrift heir.
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From one of America's most important voices of protest, an urgent new polemic about the stifling of the American public's
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Bush/Cheney's New World Order
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A mordant and passionate exposé of the right-wing threat to American democracy and freedom.
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Spaces that exert power.
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Vietnam/Iraq
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Glasser sheds light on the profound wounds, physical and emotional, that our troops face in Iraq.
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Essays on Our Endangered Republic
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Walter Karp takes on America's most cherished institutions, from the presidency to the press, in defense of American liberties.
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The inner workings of America's two-party political machine.
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The story of a secret war on American freedoms.
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Walter Karp was a modern-day Thomas Paine, vigilantly defending democracy against an ever-encroaching ruling class. These
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Recollections of the Decade from Harper's Magazine
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Relive the decade that changed our lives—Vietnam, Oswald, Cassius Clay, Castro's Cuba, civil rights, pot, the 1968 election
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Henry James chronicles New York at the turn of the century.
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Nafta, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy
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The 1991 Gulf War took on two enemies: Saddam Hussein and the American media. Learn how journalists were painted as foes of
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Harper's National Correspondent Lewis H. Lapham's sharp, wry look back at his time inside the Beatles' compound in Rishikesh,
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A journey through the quiet mornings of New York City.
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A Biography of Clarice Lispector
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Why This World shows how Clarice Lispector transformed one woman’s struggles into a universally resonant art. Hardcover.
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Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper’s Magazine
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150 years of Harper's America, in a single richly illustrated volume.
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Observations from a journey across America.
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The Travel Essays of an Expatriate American
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With wit and insight Stevenson describes his travels around Europe and his impressions of visiting the U.S.
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Harper's Magazine Weekly Review author Paul Ford's first novel.
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