{"id":16373,"date":"2016-02-04T13:28:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T18:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16373"},"modified":"2016-02-04T13:30:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T18:30:48","slug":"the-library-of-edward-r-murrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16373","title":{"rendered":"the library of Edward R. Murrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16377 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Murrow-1.jpg\" alt=\"Murrow\" width=\"262\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Murrow-1.jpg 1224w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Murrow-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Murrow-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/>Last week I <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16352\">reported<\/a> from the AFT building in Washington, where I&#8217;d attended a meeting in a room lined with the personal library\u00a0of Albert Shanker, the late and very controversial leader of the teachers&#8217; union. Earlier this week, I got to hear my excellent Tufts colleague Kelly Greenhill present on &#8220;The\u00a0Security-Related Effects of Rumors&#8221;\u00a0in a Tufts room that is furnished with the books of the late broadcast journalist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_R._Murrow\">Edward R. Murrow<\/a> (1908\u20131965).<\/p>\n<p>The arrangement of the two rooms is similar: the books fully surround a\u00a0long wooden table, leaving just enough space for chairs.<\/p>\n<p>Murrow was best known for his courageous\u00a0WWII broadcasting and then his postwar opposition to Sen. McCarthy. He\u00a0was perhaps a more consistently admirable person than Shanker, although opinions on that would vary. His books, however, were much more middle-brow. Shanker\u00a0owned ponderous tomes of 20th century Continental philosophy. Murrow had more volumes like<em> The Lady and the Vote<\/em> (1956) by Marion K. Sanders. Then again, Sanders turns out to have been a crusading feminist journalist, a psychological warfare\u00a0operative\u00a0in WWII, an interviewer of Saul Alinksy, and a one-time congressional candidate. I&#8217;d guess that Murrow knew her professionally, which is reason enough to display her book and many like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I reported from the AFT building in Washington, where I&#8217;d attended a meeting in a room lined with the personal library\u00a0of Albert Shanker, the late and very controversial leader of the teachers&#8217; union. Earlier this week, I got to hear my excellent Tufts colleague Kelly Greenhill present on &#8220;The\u00a0Security-Related Effects of Rumors&#8221;\u00a0in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16378,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16373\/revisions\/16378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}