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Newton N. Minow

Born: 1926 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Minow is a Chicago resident.

Biography: Minow is an attorney and former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. While still an influential attorney in private practice, Minow is active in many non-profit, civic, and educational institutions and is currently the Honorary Consul General of Singapore in Chicago.


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Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: nminow@sidley.com
Newton N. Minow on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=newton+n.+minow


Selected Titles

Abandoned in the wasteland :
ISBN: 0809015897 OCLC: 32012613

Hill and Wang, New York : 1995.

Argues that the First Amendment can be used on behalf of children, to help make television a force that will nurture and not harm them.

For great debates :
ISBN: 0870782126 OCLC: 15875626

Priority Press Publications, New York : 1987.

This book explores the history and future of presidential debates. It identifies four themes in assessing the debates as a vehicle for political discourse: the public impact; sponsorship and arrangements; format; and the question of third-party and independent candidates.

Media & public life
ISBN: 1560008741 OCLC: 35159139

Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, N.J. : ©1997.

Regulating campaign finance
ISBN: 0803925425 OCLC: 14146221

Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, Calif. : ©1986.

Since 1889, The American Academy of Political and Social Science has served as a forum for the free exchange of ideas among the well informed and intellectually curious. In this era of specialization, few scholarly periodicals cover the scope of societies and politics like The ANNALS . Each volume is guest edited by outstanding scholars and experts in the topics studied and presents more than 200 pages of timely, in-depth research on a significant topic of concern-- http://ann.sagepub.com.

 

 

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