Jon’s review of The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America > Likes and Comments
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Remarkable, brilliant critique of society and media. Incredibly prescient more than a half-century later.
Your father would appear to be a historian who was well ahead of his time, assuming such a position is possible?! I am sure that in 2017 admiration for "The Image" can only increase, so it is with a mixture of pleasure and respect that I will take the liberty of adding this and other of your father's works to my "to-read" list"...
Hi - I couldn't work out how to message you as you are an official "goodreads author" so I hope you don't mind if I just say thanks for becoming friends here. Once more, respect to the man that discovered Fake News fifty years before the rest of the world woke up to it! Best regards
Maru wrote: "Hi - I couldn't work out how to message you as you are an official "goodreads author" so I hope you don't mind if I just say thanks for becoming friends here. Once more, respect to the man that dis..."
I can't imagine what he'd make of our incoming President. But he had faith in the strengths of the system (and ultimately, human nature) to sort things out in the long run.
Would you somehow please message your father that his book is a monument, a key, a testament, and a revelation! Having just finished it, I sensed Yeats' image of the "rough beast" that "slouches towards Bethlehem to be born" was upon us and your father was its first journalist of note.
When I saw the title, I expected all but not this book having been written prior to September 2001 :))
Yes, my father saw this coming. Perhaps because he knew our past. He said 'trying to plan for the future without a sense of the past is like trying to plant cut flowers.'
That's a work ethic to put anyone to shame.
Your father was a prophet. Ahead of his time. And from what you describe, he was a cool dad as well.
Yes, it’s revealing to see what something written sixty years ago about what we were doing to ourselves then resonates with what we’re doing to ourselves today.
I have a signed copy of this book that has a postcard in it that’s from your dad and mom, Ruth. It’s addressed to a Mr. And Mrs. Cunningham. Do those people ring a bell for you?
This is likely Professor Hugh Cunningham. Expert on the history of childhood. Friend of Dan. Check him out on Wikipedia.
Sorry. Wrong Cunningham. This book is dedicated to Hugh Terry Cunningham, his friend since high school, who became a Rhodes Scholar with DJB and then joined the WWII OSS, helped transform it into the CIA and headed the Berlin Mission. My brother was given his middle name, Terry.
Please hang onto this book, or let me know if you're getting rid of it. My brother would find it of sentimental value.
I've written a biography about DJB and his father, who lived a lot of history, which should be coming out within the next year.
This should be mandatory reading freshman year of high school.
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Your father would appear to be a historian who was well ahead of his time, assuming such a position is possible?! I am sure that in 2017 admiration for "The Image" can only increase, so it is with a mixture of pleasure and respect that I will take the liberty of adding this and other of your father's works to my "to-read" list"...
Hi - I couldn't work out how to message you as you are an official "goodreads author" so I hope you don't mind if I just say thanks for becoming friends here. Once more, respect to the man that discovered Fake News fifty years before the rest of the world woke up to it! Best regards
Maru wrote: "Hi - I couldn't work out how to message you as you are an official "goodreads author" so I hope you don't mind if I just say thanks for becoming friends here. Once more, respect to the man that dis..."I can't imagine what he'd make of our incoming President. But he had faith in the strengths of the system (and ultimately, human nature) to sort things out in the long run.
Would you somehow please message your father that his book is a monument, a key, a testament, and a revelation! Having just finished it, I sensed Yeats' image of the "rough beast" that "slouches towards Bethlehem to be born" was upon us and your father was its first journalist of note.
When I saw the title, I expected all but not this book having been written prior to September 2001 :))
Yes, my father saw this coming. Perhaps because he knew our past. He said 'trying to plan for the future without a sense of the past is like trying to plant cut flowers.'
That's a work ethic to put anyone to shame.
Your father was a prophet. Ahead of his time. And from what you describe, he was a cool dad as well.
Yes, it’s revealing to see what something written sixty years ago about what we were doing to ourselves then resonates with what we’re doing to ourselves today.
I have a signed copy of this book that has a postcard in it that’s from your dad and mom, Ruth. It’s addressed to a Mr. And Mrs. Cunningham. Do those people ring a bell for you?
This is likely Professor Hugh Cunningham. Expert on the history of childhood. Friend of Dan. Check him out on Wikipedia.
Sorry. Wrong Cunningham. This book is dedicated to Hugh Terry Cunningham, his friend since high school, who became a Rhodes Scholar with DJB and then joined the WWII OSS, helped transform it into the CIA and headed the Berlin Mission. My brother was given his middle name, Terry.Please hang onto this book, or let me know if you're getting rid of it. My brother would find it of sentimental value.
I've written a biography about DJB and his father, who lived a lot of history, which should be coming out within the next year.
This should be mandatory reading freshman year of high school.
