Books by Robert W. McChesney

Robert W. McChesney is Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2002 he co-founded, with Dan Schiller, the Illinois Init

PEOPLE GET READY by Robert W. McChesney
by Robert W. McChesney, John Nichols
NON-FICTION
Released: March 8, 2016
"An authoritative account of the challenges facing progressives wishing to fuse better governance with economic justice."
An energetic if grim discussion of inequality and the coming era of underemployment, viewed through the lens of the forgotten American progressive narrative. Read full book review >
DOLLAROCRACY by John Nichols
by John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney
NON-FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"An alarming, not-incorrect diagnosis, but an argument too one-sided and a solution so lofty as to be of little use."
Collaborating once more (The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again, 2010), Nichols, the Nation's Washington, D.C., correspondent, and academic McChesney (Communications/Univ. of Illinois) decry the pernicious influence of Big Money on our elections. Read full book review >
DIGITAL DISCONNECT by Robert W. McChesney
by Robert W. McChesney
NON-FICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"A valuable addition to the literature on the digital age."
A provocative and far-reaching account of how capitalism has shaped the Internet in the United States. Read full book review >
WILL THE LAST REPORTER PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS by Robert W. McChesney
edited by Robert W. McChesney, Victor Pickard
NON-FICTION
Released: May 1, 2011
"Current and often enlightening—of particular interest to academic libraries—but not essential."
A well-curated collection of essays on the decline of the newspaper industry and the future of journalism. Read full book review >
TRAGEDY AND FARCE by John Nichols
by John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney
HISTORY
Released: Nov. 1, 2005
"The authors' argument gets a little soft when they trumpet their media-reform platform—but, to gauge by this book, no one else but the right is going to do the job. Good fuel for progressive responses to the Fox cabal."
The media are immoral, biased, unreliable and unpatriotic. But, The Nation correspondent Nichols and media scholar McChesney argue, it's the right's fault, not the left's. Read full book review >