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The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction
by Jake Halpern
For the past few years, Jake Halpern has reported on fame for NPR's All Things Considered. This book chronicles his journey through the underbelly of Hollywood and launches a broad investigation of America's rabid fascination with the lives of celebrities.
"What Halpern discovers, aided by media experts and psychologists, not surprisingly addresses issues of technology, social power, self-esteem and prestige. The problem is that Halpern, like many of the experts he relies upon, reasons by analogy and ends mostly with speculation." - PW.
"An astute look at the mighty vortex of fame, which this author believes will only get more powerful." - Kirkus.
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He was born in Buffalo, New York. He later attended Yale University, where he received an undergraduate degree in 1997, and is a fellow of Morse College at Yale where he teaches a seminar on journalism.
Halpern is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, the author of Fame Junkies and Braving Home, and the coauthor of three young adult novels. He is a fellow of Morse College at Yale University. His hour-long radio story "Switched at Birth" is one of This American Life's eight most popular shows ever.
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