Here’s an event notice for July 24, 2013, celebrating the publication of a new book co-authored by Robert McChesney ’76. We have shamelessly swiped this blurb from the Facebook page for The Center for Media and Democracy:

The Center for Media and Democracy will be hosting the inaugural event celebrating the publication of “Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America”, the new book from acclaimed authors John Nichols and Robert McChesney . The two authors, both Madisonians, will be at Tripp Commons, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus for a 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 24th book reading, discussion and signing. Best-selling author of Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein says of their book: “John Nichols and Bob McChesney make a compelling, and terrifying, case that American democracy is becoming American dollarocracy. Even more compelling, and hopeful, is their case for a radical reform agenda to take power back from the corporations and give it to the people.” [ed. note: bolded text emphasis added]

Officially the Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana, Bob McChesney ’76 just never stops writing. Working alone or paired with frequent writing partners John Nichols or John Bellamy Foster ’75, he churns out books and articles at a dizzying pace.  Hyperbole, you suspect?  Not so.  Go to his University of Illinois/Urbana faculty page, download his vita and see for yourself.

If you’re in the Madison area this Wednesday, July 24, stop by and hear the story first-hand.

Bob and John Bellamy Foster will be on campus at Evergreen November 13  for a talk on “Dollarocracy.” Watch The Evergreen Mind for Updates.

Here is Bob on You Tube talking about the crisis in U.S. journalism, and here are just a few of Bob’s publications:

Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy. New York: The New Press, 2013.
Nichols, John, and Robert W. McChesney. Dollarocracy: How the Money-and-Media-Election Complex is Destroying America. New York: Nation Books, 2013.
Foster, John B., and Robert W. McChesney. The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2012.
McChesney, Robert W., and John Nichols. The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again. New York: Nation Books, 2010.
The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2008.
Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media. New York: The New Press, 2007.