Dish: The Inside Story On The World Of Gossip Became the News and How the News Became Just Another Show
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From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, now a major motion picture, comes an incisive study of our obsession with gossip.
"A fascinating, dishy story." -Booklist
Gossip. It's more than just hearsay, society columns, and supermarket tabloids. It has, like it or not, become a mainstay of American pop culture. In Dish, industry insider Jeannette Walls gives this provocative subject its due, offering a comprehensive, serious exploration of gossip and its social, historical, and political significance. Examining the topic from the inside out, Walls looks at the players; the origins of gossip, from birth of People magazine to the death of Lady Di; and how technology including the Internet will continue to change the face gossip. As compelling and seductive as its subject matter, Dish brilliantly reveals the fascinating inner workings of a phenomenon that is definitely here to stay.
Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than eight years. She is also the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The title tells it all ... and the author manages to create a fairly well-researched, but poorly footnoted, history of gossip and how it went from the fringes to mainstream. I'm in the midst of reading through books that won the Pulitzer Prize for history, so I'm becoming more accustomed to the best in historical writing -- and Dish isn't in that category.Still, it provided a fascinating read -- I'm several weeks ahead of my "deadline" for finishing the book in time to discuss it in October. I hadn't thought of 60 Minutes as being a part of the transformation of gossip column of the 1930s into a "news" magazine of today, but I think the author is right. Of course, one cannot write a history of gossip without including some details of that gossip -- I have mixed feelings about that -- but enjoyed the gossip nonetheless.
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