How Books Can Save American Democracy

Citizen Critics
By Rosa Everly
University of Illinois Press
189 pages, $39.95.

In an appendix to her provocative new book, Citizen Critics, Rosa Eberly gives her reader what seem to be odd instructions: call a radio talk show, make an argument, and support it. "What I’m asking you to do is to enter the entertainment-oriented sphere of local talk radio and use it to make an argument about something you feel requires comment," she writes. The assignment isn’t for the reader, it’s one Eberly gives her undergraduates at UT-Austin...

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