All the President's Spin

George W. Bush, the Media and the Truth
By Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer and Brendan Nyhan
Available now from Touchstone Books, a division of Simon & Schuster

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Press coverage

1/10/05: During an interview with Bryan Keefer on ABC News Now, Sam Donaldson called All the President's Spin "very interesting."

11/11/04: An interview with the editors of Spinsanity about All the President's Spin appears in Reason magazine.

11/10/04: All the President's Spin is selected as one of the top 10 political books of 2004 by the editors of Amazon.com.

11/2/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared on WUNC's "The State of Things" to discuss campaign 2004 and All the President's Spin (MP3 audio).

11/1/04: Bryan Keefer and All the President's Spin are profiled in the Stanford alumni magazine.

10/28/04: Spinsanity and All the President's Spin are featured in Poynter.org's Book Babes column.

10/27/04: An interview with Brendan Nyhan about campaign 2004 and All the President's Spin is published in Omaha's City Weekly.

10/24/04: The Chicago Sun-Times profiles Spinsanity and mentions All the President's Spin as part of an examination of the aggressive spin tactics being used in campaign 2004.

10/22/04: Bryan Keefer appeared on KGO San Francisco's "The Pete Wilson Show" to discuss campaign 2004 and All the President's Spin.

10/11/04: Bryan Keefer appears on KCPW/KPCW Salt Lake City to discuss campaign 2004 and All the President's Spin.

10/10/04: Spinsanity is recommended by Newsday columnist Lou Dolinar in a column, who mentions All the President's Spin.

10/8/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared on KTSA San Antonio to discuss campaign 2004 and All the President's Spin.

10/8/04: Ben Fritz appeared on KERA North Texas to discuss fact-checking campaign 2004 and All the President's Spin.

10/7/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared on KMJI Cleveland to discuss campaign 2004 and All the President's Spin.

10/3/04: Ben Fritz appears on Pacifica Radio's Sunday Salon to discuss the presidential debate and All the President's Spin.

9/30/04: Jon Elliston reviews All the President's Spin in the Independent Weekly (Raleigh-Durham, NC), calling it "a detailed, extensively documented and surprisingly readable collection of reports that pull down the curtain on the White House's backroom spinmeisters."

9/29/04: Ben Fritz appeared on Eric Von's "The Evening Rush" on 1290 WMCS Milwaukee to discuss All the President's Spin.

9/28/04: Ben Fritz appeared on KXLU Los Angeles's "Centerstage" to discuss All the President's Spin.

9/25/04: A critical review of All the President's Spin appears in the Weekly Standard.

9/24/04: An article in the Oregonian mentions Spinsanity, All the President's Spin, and Bryan Keefer's appearance on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," calling the site "scrupulously researched and passionately nonideological."

9/23/04: Ben Fritz appeared on WILL Urbana, Ill.'s "Afternoon Magazine" to discuss All the President's Spin.

9/21/04: An Associated Press story profiles Brendan Nyhan, Spinsanity and All the President's Spin.

9/21/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared on WCCO Minneapolis to discuss All the President's Spin.

9/19/04: Eric Deggans discusses All the President's Spin in a St. Petersburg Times column.

9/17/04: The Asheville Citizen-Times briefly mentions All the President's Spin after <"http://www.citizen-times.com/cache/article/editorial/61700.shtml">recommending Spinsanity as a resource for voters.

9/17/04: Bryan Keefer appeared on Regional News Network's "RNN Live" to discuss All the President's Spin.

9/14/04: All the President's Spin is named #10 on the eReader.com nonfiction bestseller list.

9/13/04: Ben Fritz appeared on UPN 13 News in Los Angeles to discuss All the President's Spin and campaign 2004.

9/13/04: All the President's Spin is reviewed in PR Week.

9/12/04: All the President's Spin is reviewed by Cary Darling in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, who calls it a "bipartisan blast" and a "convincing argument."

9/10/04: All the President's Spin is reviewed in the Los Altos Town Crier (CA).

9/10/04: Ben Fritz appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on KSOO Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

9/9/04: Paul Abercrombie reviews All the President's Spin in the Tampa Tribune, comparing it to "having stumbled onto the secret manual revealing how a famous magician performs his seemingly impossible tricks."

9/8/04: All the President's Spin will appear at #29 on the New York Times extended bestseller list for paperback non-fiction (Sept. 19 edition).

9/8/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin and coverage of campaign 2004 on WNYC's "The Brian Lehrer Show."

9/8/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on WTAN Tampa's "Dummy's Voice."

9/7/04: An excerpt from All the President's Spin and an interview with the authors are published on Alternet.

9/7/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on KHOW Denver's "Peter Boyles Show."

9/3/04: All the President's Spin is reviewed in the Forward.

9/2/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared to discuss All the President's Spin and President Bush's speech at the Republican convention on KDKA Pittsburgh.

9/2/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on Westwood One Radio Network (syndicated).

9/1/04: All the President's Spin will appear at #19 on the New York Times extended bestseller list for paperback non-fiction (Sept. 12 edition).

8/31/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on WGAN in Portland, Maine.

8/30/04: A Publisher's Weekly Online review calls All the President's Spin a "lucid critique" and a "passionate indictment" that is "[w]ell organized and heavily referenced."

8/29/04: Spinsanity and All the President's Spin are recommended to readers in the San Francisco Chronicle.

8/29/04: All the President's Spin is cited in an article in the Austin American-Statesman.

8/29/04: The Cleveland Plain Dealer names All the President's Spin the #6 book purchased by Cleveland residents on Amazon.com.

8/27/04: A one-question interview with Brendan Nyhan appears in Duke University's Dialogues newsletter.

8/26/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on KLSD San Diego.

8/26/04: Ben Fritz appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on WYLL Chicago's "Money & More."

8/26/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on NY1's "Inside City Hall."

8/25/04: All the President's Spin reaches #14 on the New York Times bestseller list for paperback non-fiction (Sept. 5 edition) and also appears #133 on the USA Today list.

8/25/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on Air America Radio's "Majority Report."

8/25/04: Bryan Keefer's interview from National Public Radio's "On the Media" (Real Audio / transcript) is linked on Romenesko, the media insider website.

8/24/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on KMSR Dallas.

8/24/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on KUCI 88.9 FM Irvine's "Weekly Signals".

8/24/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on WJBC Bloomington.

8/23/04: Ben Fritz appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on on WHYY 91 FM Philadelphia with Marty Moss-Coane, host of "Radio Times" (10-11 AM EST)

8/22/04: Ben Fritz appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on "Airtalk" on KIRO 710 AM Seattle with Erin Hart, host of "Erin Hart Show."

8/22/04: Bryan Keefer was interviewed about All the President's Spin on National Public Radio's "On the Media." (Real Audio / transcript)

8/20/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared on Fox News Radio's "Fox News Live with Alan Colmes."

8/20/04: Ben Fritz appeared on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes."

8/20/04: Bryan Keefer appeared on the morning show of WCBS New York to discuss All the President's Spin.

8/19/04: All the President's Spin reaches #17 on the New York Times extended bestseller list for paperback nonfiction and #111 on the USA Today list of bestsellers.

8/19/04: Ben Fritz appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on "Airtalk" on KPCC Los Angeles.

8/19/04: Ben Fritz appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on K-NEWS Las Vegas.

8/19/04: Ben Fritz appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on KKLA Los Angeles.

8/19/04: Ben Fritz appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on the "Free Speech Show" on KMPC Los Angeles.

8/17/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on Wisconsin Public Radio with Joy Cardin, host of "Conversations with Joy Cardin."

8/17/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on Talk 1340 in West Palm Beach with host Johnny Trumpet.

8/17/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on Talk Radio News Service with host Ellen Ratner.

8/17/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared to discuss All the President's Spinon CN8 "Nitebeat," a New England cable news show.

8/16/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on WALK Atlanta.

8/16/04: Ben Fritz appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on WMSE's "Milwaukee Midweek."

8/16/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on WXXI Rochester with Bob Smith, host of "1370 Connection with Bob Smith."

8/16/04: Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer and Brendan Nyhan conducted an online chat to discuss All the President's Spin on SimonSays.com, the website of Simon & Schuster.

8/13/04: Bryan Keefer is interviewed in Congressional Quarterly about All the President's Spin.

8/12/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." At the end of the interview, Stewart recommended the book to viewers:

What I really like about this book - and I have to tell you, I don’t recommend books, because I'm on television and you're basically taking food out my baby's mouth. But I have to recommend this. It is an absolutely, I think, non-ideological, very well-researched case of how it's done. It's sort of like that Fox show, “Magician’s Secrets Revealed.” And I really enjoyed it... All the President’s Spin - it’s on the bookshelves now, you should really get ahold of it.

8/12/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spinon WBAA Indianapolis with host Dan Skinner.

8/12/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on WHAT Philadelphia with Reggie Bryant, host of "In Pursuit of Truth."

8/11/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on Cable Radio Network with Mike Horn, host of "Cable Talk Nationwide.

8/11/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on National Public Radio with Joe Donohue of "The Round Table."

8/11/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on TPT Radio Networks with Tom Pope, host of "The Tom Pope Show."

8/10/04: Brendan Nyhan discussed All the President's Spin with Daria Albinger of ABC Radio in a syndicated interview.

8/10/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared to discuss All the President's Spinon Icicle Networks with Peter B. Collins, host of "All-American Talk Radio."

8/10/04: Bryan Keefer moderated a panel on "Blogs: The Future of Politics?" at the 92nd Street Y's Steinhardt Building in New York City.

8/10/04: Matthew Yglesias calls All the President's Spin "invaluable" in an American Prospect Online article.

8/9/04: Ben Fritz appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on KKLA Los Angeles.

8/9/04: Ben Fritz appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on RK Radio Networks with Ruth Koscielak, host of "The Ruth Koscielak Show."

8/9/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared to discuss All the President's Spin with Barry Lynn, host of "Cultureshocks," on on KCAA Los Angeles, WCBR in Tennessee and KGGM in Louisiana.

8/9/04: Brendan Nyhan is quoted in a Chicago Sun-Times story on Democratic Senate candidate Barrack Obama that mentions his co-authorship of All the President's Spin.

8/8/04: Ben Fritz appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on WIP Philadelphia with Peter Solomon, host of "WIP Sunday Magazine."

8/8/04: All the President's Spin is listed as a new book in paperback in the Chicago Tribune.

8/7/04: All the President's Spin is featured in Agence France Presse article on upcoming books that are critical of President Bush.

8/6/04: An excerpt from All the President's Spin is published at MediaBistro.com.

8/6/04: Brendan Nyhan appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on KCMN Colorado Springs.

8/6/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on Air America's "Morning Sedition."

8/4/04: Brendan Nyhan was interviewed about All the President's Spin on KWGS Tulsa with Rich Fisher, host of "Intelligent Talk" (MP3 audio file).

8/4/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin oon Media Tracks with Pat Reuter, host of "Viewpoints."

8/4/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on Radio America's "Battle Line with Nathan Allen."

8/4/04: Cathy Seipp mentions Ben Fritz and All the President's Spin in a National Review Online article.

8/4/04: All the President's Spin is featured in a USA Today article on upcoming books that are critical of President Bush.

8/3/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on 55KRC Cincinatti's "The Morning Show."

8/3/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on USA Radio Network with Al Lerner and Richard Stevens, hosts of "Daybreak".

8/3/04: Bryan Keefer appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on Radio America with Jane Silk of The Jane Silk Show.

8/3/04: Ben Fritz appeared to discuss All the President's Spin on KVON Napa, CA with Jeff Schectman, host of "Morning Edition."

8/2/04: Ben Fritz was interviewed about All the President's Spin by Diego Mulligan, host of KSFR Santa Fe's "The Journey Home."

7/30/04: The book party held by the networking group Media Tank to celebrate the upcoming release of All the President's Spin is covered in the New York Sun's Knickerbocker column.

7/29/04: The PRWeek.com Q&A with Ben Fritz and Brendan Nyhan about All the President's Spin is linked on Romenesko, the media insider website.

7/28/04: A Q&A with Ben Fritz and Brendan Nyhan about All the President's Spin is published on PRWeek.com.

7/26/04: A Q&A with Brendan Nyhan about All the President's Spin appears in The News & Observer, a newspaper in North Carolina.

3/31/04: PRWeek.com publishes an article on Spinsanity's forthcoming book All the President's Spin: George W. Bush, the Media and the Truth.

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