EAN: 9781501392177

NEWSPAPER - MAGGIE MESSITT TASCHENBUCH

Object Lessons is a series of short  beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of
ordinary things. Newspaper is about more than news printed on paper. It brings us inside our
best and worst selves  from censorship and the intentional destruction of historic record  to
partisan and white supremacist campaigns  to the story of an instrument that has been central
to democracy and to holding the powerful to account. Newspapers are significant and vital and
yet also quotidian and disposable: stuffed inside walls for insulation  crumpled to wash
windows or start fires  and spread across floors to protect from paint or muddy shoes. A part
of our daily ritual  the first draft of history  and a critical component of our democracy 
newspapers figure in our lives and societies in many different ways  but are often central to
the communities they serve. This is a 400-year history of a nearly-endangered object and
journalist Maggie Messitt's more recent  personal journey as an advocate for its transformation
and survival in the two democratic nations she calls home - the United States and South Africa.
A collection of 100 vignettes  Newspaper is a reflection on the past and present  and a journey
alongside those seeking to prevent its extinction. Object Lessons is published in partnership
with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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