Chapter Seven: Categories

Values and Voices

The Perils and Messes of Modern Politics

The Obliteration of USAID

Part Five: Great Bookselling is a Mission

Part Seven: John Darnton on the Book, the Land and People it Portrays

Part Six: John the Savior

Part Five: The Count of No Account

...In Journalism

Part Four: Flt/Sgt Jan Ryszard Bychowski

Connecting the Dots

What to Expect in the Book and How to Preorder

Part Three: Terror for A Polish Communist in Stalin's Russia.

The Emigre Pole Zbig, The German Jewish Refugee Henry the K and Much More

Part Two: The introduction by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Available for preorders. To be published Oct. 14

Amazon Data Centers Bordering New Carlisle, Indiana

Part One: Overture

A Note to Readers

And What You Or I Can Do About Them

Substack, the digital platform where “Peter Osnos Public Affairs Press” regularly appears, suggests that writers consider reposting older pieces if they are relevant, making them available to new read...

Part Four: Jerry Mitchell, Superstar Reporter

Part Two The Presidential Run-off and Introducing "In the Garden of Memory"

S.I. Newhouse Jr. and His Realm

Yes, It Has been Fifty Years

Devising a Business Model for Journalism

Journalism's Award Season

Part Two: Macauley Honors College Where Exceptional is the Rule

Jeff Bezos’s announcement on Elon Musk’s X that henceforth the Washington Post’s editorials and its opinions section will be devoted exclusively to issues of personal liberties and free markets means ...

What Time and Trump Hath Wrought

Gina Raimondo: First of an Occasional Series

C-SPAN. Yes, C-Span

2026. 2028 And Thereafter

The Adversary and the Enemy

The Adversary and the Enemy

Classics in 2025

Defense Secretary Robert McNamara’s subservience to President Lyndon Johnson led America to disaster in Vietnam.

Reprinted from the Columbia Journalism Review with Permission and My Thanks 12/18/2024

Brian Lamb takes on "LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail"

Oct. 1, 1924-December 29, 2024

On his way to Seattle in 1994 to launch the company he would call Amazon, Jeff Bezos stopped off at the Washington Post.  In a biographical introduction to Invent and Wander, a book of Bezos’s collect...

Presidents' Legacies Evolve

Part Two: Parsing Britain's Changed Political Scene

In November 2020 PublicAffairs, in partnership with Harvard Business Review Press, published Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, with an introduction by Walter Isaacson. Our contr...