Books by Medill Alumni
OF BLACK, WHITE, AND MANY COLORS
by Michael Chacko Daniels (MSJ68) With illustrations by Krittika Ramanujan & Aaron Bass Michael Chacko Daniels, in his inimitable way, paints a wild, sensuous, explosive,...
Read MorePerforming the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality
Dr. Elia Powers (BSJ03) “Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality” explores how journalists from historically marginalized groups have long felt pressure...
Read MoreDiscovering Your Passion: The Path to Your Authentic Life (MSJ16)
Shadan Kapri (MSJ16) “Discovering Your Passion: The Path to Your Authentic Life,” is written for all of those who don’t fit the mold, to the...
Read MoreMinority Rule
Ari Berman (BSJ04) A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power—and the movement to stop...
Read MoreKeirn Chronicles Volume Two
Ian Douglass (MSJ06) In this 440-page sequel, Ian Douglass (MSJ06) works with Steve Keirn to tell the story about his mainstream return to wrestling, the...
Read MoreThe New York Times Essential Book of Cocktails
Steve Reddicliffe (BSJ75) Steve Reddicliffe of Glen Arbor, Mich., is the editor of the new edition of The New York Times Essential Book of Cocktails,...
Read MoreVotes of Confidence: A Young Person’s Guide to American Elections
Jeff Fleischer (MSJ03) Every four years, coverage of the presidential election turns into a horse-race story about who’s leading the polls and who said what...
Read MoreBylines and Blessings
Judy Rosenfeld Gruen (MSJ86) What happens when career ambition begins to clash with a commitment to religious and personal values? In “Bylines and Blessings,” award-winning...
Read MoreDoorman Wanted – A Novel
Glenn Miller (MSJ90) Henry Franken has a problem with money – he has too much of it. When his unprincipled father dies, thirty-three-year-old Henry inherits...
Read MoreMy Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and the Battles That Made Us
Morgan Campbell (BSJ99) Morgan Campbell comes from “a fighting family,” a connection and clash that reaches back to Chicago in the 1930s. His parents’ families...
Read MoreCoyotes Among US
Kerry Luft (BSJ87) Coyotes Among Us is an eye-opening volume of research and photographs exploring one of North America’s most persistent—and misunderstood—predators. The coyote. Even...
Read MoreCuring Cancer-phobia How Risk, Fear, and Worry Mislead Us
David Ropeik (BSJ72, MSJ73) In some ways our fear of cancer exceeds the risk, and the fear does great harm all by itself. “Curing Cancer-phobia...
Read MoreThe Blues Brothers
Daniel de Visé (MSJ90) In the first half of this exhaustively researched, highly informative book, de Visé, the author of King of the Blues and...
Read MoreKeep This Off The Record
Arden Joy (BSJ16) Abigail Meyer and Freya Jonsson can’t stand one another. But could their severe hatred be masking something else entirely? From the moment...
Read MoreWhat Music! The Fifty-Year Friendship Between Beethoven and Nannette Streicher, Who Built His Pianos
Laurie Lawlor (BSJ75) Inspiring, little-known story of two artists who changed each other’s lives and the course of musical history. Illustrated picture book for music...
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