Cornell University Press: Sound and Fury (PDF)

Termed "the most honest and incisive media critic writing today" in the National Catholic Reporter, and author of "the smartest and funniest political journal out there,'' in The San Francisco Chronicle, Eric Alterman is Professor of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, the 'Liberal Media' columnist for The Nation, the 'Altercation' weblogger for MSNBC.com (www.altercation.msnbc.com'), and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he writes and edits the 'Think Again' column. Alterman is the author of the national bestsellers, What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News (2003,2004), and The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America (with Mark Green, 2004). His newest book is When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and its Consequences, (2004). His It Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999, 2001), won the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award. Alterman is also the author of Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy, (1998). A frequent lecturer and contributor to virtually every significant national publication in the US and many in Europe, in recent years, he has also been a columnist for: Worth, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and The Sunday Express (London). Alterman is a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute at New School University.