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Recent book, Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s, published in 2005 by Princeton University Press. He is also the author of See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate, Mr. and Mrs. President: From the Trumans to the Clintons (an updated version of Affairs of State: The Rise and Rejection of the Presidential Couple Since World War II) and Why I Am A Zionist, which will soon be released in its third printing.
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2008

Thursday 26 June 2008 MADRID: AUTHOR ATWOOD WINS SPANISH HONOUR
Canadian author Margaret Atwood has won a prestigious international award, the Prince of Asturias Prize for Letters. The award celebrates excellence in literature, and in honouring Atwood, the jury noted that her work consistently "defends the dignity of women and denounces social injustice." Previous winners of the Asturias Prize are Arthur Miller and Doris Lessing.

Monday 16 June 2008 A Book Club Courts Liberals
The progressive movement has prided itself on its ability to get its messages out by harnessing the Internet, through organizations like MoveOn.org and blogs like Daily Kos or The Huffington Post.

Wednesday 11 June 2008 Potter 'prequel' sold at auction
A short Harry Potter prequel by JK Rowling is sold for £25,000 at a charity auction in London.

Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 Gazette reporter wins Business Book Award
Gazette reporter William Marsden, author of Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental...The award, presented yesterday in Toronto, is worth $20,000.
Marsden's book is a polemic against how the province of Alberta is allowing the oil industry to exploit energy resources for short-term gain
My hope is that (this award) is a reflection of businessmen as human beings beginning to take the environment seriously."

Five titles were up for the award. The short list of authors also included Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism), Rodrigo Bascunan and Christian Pearce (Enter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent), Jacques Poitras (Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy) and Chris Turner (The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need).

The award is sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the BMO Financial Group.

© The Gazette (Montreal) 2008

Saturday Dec 15, 2007 Magazines still overpriced in Canada - but 'rip-off' is less obvious to buyers
U.S. publishing giant Hearst has removed U.S. prices from the Canadian editions of its magazines - but...
On a Hearst website, the monthly price for O, the Oprah Magazine is listed at $3.95 U.S. In Canada, the single price on the January edition of O is $5.75. Cosmopolitan is listed at $4.29 U.S., but in Canada it costs $5.99.

Friday 14 December 2007 ROWLING IN THE DOUGH
The National, CTV News, the Globe, the Post, and the Star go inside with the record-breaking sale of J.K. Rowling’s latest book. One of only seven extant copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a volume alluded to in the final instalment of the Harry potter series, was sold at auction for the equivalent of $4 million yesterday. London art agent Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox was the succesful bidder, buying on behalf of Amazon.com. Rowling, in a feat that must have required infinite patience, hand-wrote and illustrated seven copies of the tome, giving six away to those “most closely connected to the Harry Potter books during the last seventeen years.” The fortune collected from the sale of the seventh copy will be donated to Rowling’s charity, The Children’s Voice, which helps vulnerable children in Eastern Europe. The manuscript was expected to fetch $100,000, but apparently the appeal of owning the very volume that, according to Potter lore, was left by pedagogue Albus Dumbledore to Harry’s buddy Hermione was enough to propel the price to the highest ever achieved by a modern literary manuscript. Still, Rowling can’t compete with the literary celebrity of Napoleon Bonaparte; a single page of a love story hand-written by The Little Corporal was sold at auction less than two weeks ago for $34,400, The National online reports. Averaged out, The Tales of Beedle the Bard fetched a paltry $25,478 per page.

Jordan Himelfarb is a Quebec City-based MediaScout writer for Maisonneuve Magazine.

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Thursday 06 December 2007 economist Pick of the bunch
History, politics, music, business, biography, memoir, letters and fiction. There is something for everyone in this round-up of the year's best books

Sunday 02 December 2007 nyt The 10 Best Books of 2007

Thursday 08 November 2007 TORONTO: TOP LITERARY PRIZE AWARDED
The richest literary prize in Canada, the Giller Prize, has been awarded this year to Elizabeth Hay. She won for her novel entitled Late Nights on Air. It's a work of fiction inspired by Miss Hay's own years working at a radio station in Canada's northern city of Yellowknife during the 1970's. The Giller Prize is $40,000.

Thursday Oct 25, 2007 Dumbledore has been diminished
Harry Potter series author J.K. Rowling has caused a sensation by revealing that the beloved headmaster of Hogwarts and Harry Potter's mentor, protector and sometimes surrogate father, Albus Dumbledore, is gay. There were no clues to this bombshell in most of the books, except for recollections in the last book of a young boy Dumbledore had been close to as a youth, who then devastated Dumbledore and betrayed their friendship by taking up the Dark Arts.

Saturday 15 September 2007 Ayn Rand’s Literature of Capitalism
One of the most influential business books ever written is a 1,200-page novel published 50 years ago, on Oct. 12, 1957. It is still drawing readers; it ranks 388th on Amazon.com’s best-seller list. (“Winning,” by John F. Welch Jr., at a breezy 384 pages, is No. 1,431.)

Tuesday 17 July 2007 The Voice of Harry Potter Can Keep a Secret
A little less than two months ago, Mr. Dale, the veteran Broadway actor turned voice of Harry Potter, finished recording the audio version of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the seventh and final installment in the colossally successful series by J. K. Rowling.

Friday 12 January 2007 nyt The 10 Best Books of 2006 and other years

2006

Menu to mitworld.mit.edu/ on-demand videos of significant public events at MIT. in RealPlayer
Ex Thomas L. Friedman. While you were Seeping The World IS Flat Video length is 1:15:04. see also his Home | amazon

Tuesday Jun 6, 2006 nyt Digital Publishing Is Scrambling the Industry's Publishers, editors and writers are grappling with the Web's ability to connect readers and writers more quickly and intimately.

Saturday May 20, 2006 Retailer's 2006 profit more than doubles
Indigo Books & Music Inc., Canada's largest book retailer, more than doubled its net income for fiscal 2006 to $25.3 million, due to a combination of rising sales and improved operating efficiency.

April 5-9, 2006 The Blue Met 2006 Festival programme
Writers, translators and publishers converge for Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montréal

Tuesday Feb 28, 2006 ts Da Vinci Code plagiarism case hits court
Author Dan Brown copied the central themes of his best-selling thriller, The Da Vinci Code, from a 1982 book, a lawyer for two of the book's three authors claims. Kevin Sullivan reports.

nyt 'Da Vinci Code' Trial Opens With Claim of Theft The authors of a nonfiction book contend that Dan Brown stole their ideas for his megaselling thriller. {9} W-N pages on "da Vinci"

Tuesday Dec 27, 2005 nyt A Chance to Meet the Author Online
By EDWARD WYATT
Amazon.com is offering author blogs and extended personal profile pages as a way to increase the visibility of books in a crowded media marketplace.

www.bookcrossing.com/ people are laving books lying around, hoping you'll find them

Friday Nov 25, 2005 nyt 100 Notable Books of the Year
The Book Review editors have compiled a list of the best books of 2005. Includes links to the original reviews.

Wednesday Nov 23, 2005 ts Library of Congress goal to create digital collection
WASHINGTON—The Library of Congress is launching a campaign to create the World Digital Library — an online collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, posters, stamps and other materials from its holdings and those of other national libraries that would be freely accessible for viewing by anyone, anywhere with Internet access.

Sunday Nov 13, 2005 nyt YOUR MONEY
Get Rich Quick, Write a Millionaire Book By DAMON DARLIN
According to the spate of best-selling self-help books, to get rich you have to think like a millionaire.

Friday Sep 9, 2005 by 'Colin Everard

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Wed 1211 page 2 Karl Moore & Stephen Blank

Who will rescue Air Canada?
Prof. Moore, Karl an airline analyst at McGill University, told CBC News that Onex Corp. and investment giant Texas Pacific Group might be interested in taking a run at the airline.

Thursday 10 April 2008

Rowling honoured at book awards