Past Projects
Yascha Mounk’s study of our changing political landscape was featured on Morning Joe and NPR, and was covered by print and online outlets ranging from The New York Times to Vox to Vice.
Cass Sunstein’s slender examination of one of the most important mechanism of our country was featured in The New York Times, Time Magazine, and on NPR and C-SPAN.
The history of corporate “personhood”, written by UCLA’s Adam Winkler, was covered by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, NPR, to name just a few.
Arlie Russell Hochschild’s bestselling book helped Americans get outside of their political bubbles after the 2016 election. Her book was covered by The New York Times, The New Republic, and The Nation, to name but three.
Susan Burton’s book and life’s work were covered by the New York Times’ Nick Kristof, NPR, The Daily Show, and dozens of other outlets.
Iris Bohnet’s book won the 800CEORead Best Business Book of the Year Award for 2016. Her launch piece in The Wall Street Journal explained what companies can do to correct gender imbalance in the workplace.
The Price of Inequality was the first New York Times bestseller for Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, and paved the way for much of today’s talk about inequality in America. The book was reviewed or covered in The New York Times, NPR, PBS, C-SPAN, and other outlets.
Diane Ravitch’s book made news when it was released for her reversal on the value of public schools. Coverage ran in The New York Times– a major interview with their education reporter–The Wall Street Journal, and NPR.
Bergdorf Goodman personal shopper Betty Halbreich is a media darling. The coverage for her memoir ranged from The New York Times to New York Magazine to CNN to NPR.
A truly different business book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things was covered everywhere from Fortune to The New York Times Book Review to The Washington Post.
Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss pulled back the curtain on the unfair treatment of college athletes, and were covered by Sports Illustrated, “60 Minutes Sports,” the “PBS Newshour,” and “Charlie Rose,” among others.
Singer-songwriter Dar Williams’ book about how small towns and cities build “positive proximity” was covered by NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, and many more local and national outlets.
Sara Goldrick-Rab is one of the most interesting, influential, and outspoken critics of the higher education system. In her book interviews with “The Daily Show” and “Marketplace,” she explained exactly how the deck is stacked against the students who are trying the hardest to stay in school.
Former CEO of Chanel, Chiquet’s book about women and leadership was covered in The New York Times, on CNBC, and online by Inc., Harper’s Bazaar, and Women’s Wear Daily.
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) wrote this book about the growing–and worrying–trend of corporate money influencing politics, which especially affects the regulation of the fossil fuel industry. His interviews for The New Yorker, “Living on Earth,” and “Morning Joe” explained how this came to pass, and what citizens can do about it.
Released just after England voted for “Brexit,” Joseph Stiglitz’s book about The Euro and its flaws was incredibly well-timed. He and this book were the focus of a major New York Times feature, multiple NPR interviews, and reviews in The Economist, The Financial Times, and more.
Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein wrote this landmark book before “behavioral economics” was an everyday phrase. The book became a phenomenon and is still cited today. Media for the book included the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, PBS, NPR, and countless other national outlets.
Kathryn Aalto’s delightful natural history of the Pooh stories and their settings charmed journalists at NPR, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and People Magazine, eventually becoming a bestseller.
Veteran progressive activists and organizers Becky Bond and Zack Exley appeared on NPR and Democracy Now! (among other outlets) to discuss activism in the age of President Trump.
The story behind the story of the 2008 financial crisis, veteran journalists Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean appeared on “Charlie Rose” and “The Daily Show,” among many other outlets.
This book’s findings were the subject of a Congressional hearing, breaking open the scandalous story of the true cost of the Iraq War. Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes were covered by almost every major media outlet, from NPR to the New York Times to the Associated Press.
Before it was an HBO series, Generation Kill was a book by journalist Evan Wright. The Rolling Stone articles on which the book were based won him a National Magazine Award. When the book was released it made waves, and media coverage included Fox News Channel.
