The Noise of Typewriters: Lance Morrow remembers the golden age of American journalism

EPISODE 1351: In this KEEN ON show, THE NOISE OF TYPEWRITERS author Lance Morrow remembers the golden age of American journalists such as John Hersey, Henry Luce and Carl Bernstein (apologies for the poor sound quality of this interview which was recorded on his antique iphone)

LANCE MORROW, the Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is an American essayist whose work appears regularly in the Wall Street Journal and City Journal. For many years he was an essayist for Time magazine. A winner of the National Magazine Award for essay and criticism, he is the author of ten books. He lives in Upstate New York with his wife, the author Susan Brind Morrow, and is the father of two sons.

Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.

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