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Publicity Plans:

National media outreach to newspapers, NPR, podcasts, TV, etc.

Targeted coverage in national media with strong focus on men’s magazines (pushing for profiles in Esquire, GQ and more)

Outreach to Jewish publications such as Tablet, Hadassah, Commentary, Jewish Currents, and more

Outreach to political publications such as The Hill, Politico, The New Republic, and more

Further outreach to publications that have previously reviewed such as The New York Times Book Review, Associated Press, USA Today, and more

Pitching op-eds on the American media economy, how Americans can salvage and rebuild society, to outlets such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post

Local media outreach throughout Washington, DC (author’s place of residence)

Pitch additional speaking engagements outside of usual tour and interview spots, with platforms like TED or The New Yorker Festival

Event Schedule:

Politics & Prose launch followed by a national tour

LAT Festival of Books, Portland Book Festival, Texas Book Festival

Tour Schedule:

1/14/20 7:00pm: Reading, in conversation with Mark Leibovich, and signing at Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C.

1/17/20 7:00pm: Reading and book signing at Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA

1/21/20 6:00pm: Reading, in conversation with Ken Auleta, and book signing at NYPL's Grand Central Library (Program Room), New York, NY

About the Author

Bob Garfield is the cohost of WNYC's weekly Peabody Award-winning On the Media. Garfield has been a columnist and contributing editor for The Washington Post Magazine, The Guardian, and USA Today, as well as an author, lecturer, podcaster, and broadcast personality on ABC, CBS, CNBC, PBS, and NPR. He lives in suburban Washington, D.C.

Reviews

"In the vast, bland American wasteland of homogenized, regurgitated media, there is a lone, heroic taco truck. Bob Garfield is that taco truck. Nourishing. Defiant. Also very smart and very brave. American Manifesto is his spicy masterpiece." --Alec Baldwin

"Short, specific, and droll. It is very much worth reading, for ideas about the next stage in the world's recovery from failed, weak, and in other ways troubled media systems." -James Fallows, The Atlantic

"Longtime media critic and journalist Garfield examines the salient factors that shaped American politics prior to the 2016 election and that continue to influence voter attitudes as the 2020 campaigns get underway . . . Garfield offers practical advice on how to transform outrage into positive action. Fans of his Peabody Award-winning public radio program, "On the Media," will recognize Garfield's bold yet grounded humor, while his trenchant analysis and surprisingly hopeful vision will motivate readers to pay attention and get involved." --Booklist

"In American Manifesto, Bob Garfield bares our national soul, and it's hellishly dark. We've divided ourselves by everything under the sun, eroding the idea of America as the common home of the many. With wit, passion, and insight, Garfield dissects the problem and issues a call to action. He will convince you that it's time to get out the door." --Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University and author of How America Lost Its Mind

"In a time when explanations seem to be in short order and solutions virtually extinct, books like Bob Garfield's American Manifesto are a godsend. Here is a serious, probing work that gets to the heart of why we're in this political and cultural crisis and, miraculously enough, provides plausible solutions as to how to find our way out. Absolutely necessary reading." --Jared Yates Sexton, author of The Man They Wanted Me to Be

"Bob Garfield speaks truth not just to power, but to the dangerously disempowered. Unflinchingly direct yet courageously sympathetic, his American Manifesto deconstructs the most infectious media virus of all time. Here is the vaccination that our collective immune system so desperately needs." -Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock and Team Human

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