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Authors: Edward Jay Epstein
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Edward Jay Epstein studied government at Cornell and Harvard universities and received a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1973. His master’s thesis on the search for political truth
(Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth)
and his doctoral dissertation on television news
(News from Nowhere)
were both published. He taught political science at MIT and UCLA but decided that writing books was a more educational enterprise.
The Hollywood Economist
, which originated as a column on
Slate
, is his fourteenth book. He lives in New York City.
The Hollywood Economist
© 2010 E.J.E. Publications, Ltd., Inc.
All rights reserved
First Melville House printing: December 2009
Melville House Publishing
145 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Parts of this book appeared in earlier form in the
New Yorker, Slate, The Wall Street Journal
, and the
Financial Times
.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2009943414
eISBN: 978-1-935554-99-8
v3.0
