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LitHub-CelebrityNationExcerpt

May 9, 2023

Lit Hub – Tracing the Evolution of Celebrity Memoirs

Lit Hub – Tracing the Evolution of Celebrity Memoirs, from Charles Lindbergh to Will Smith

“Creating a personal myth allows celebrities to create just that—a myth.”

Excerpt from Celebrity Nation
by Landon Jones with permission by Beacon Press

(pdf copy here)

TeenVogue

May 1, 2023

Teen Vogue – Celebrity Nation

Teen Vogue – ‘Celebrity Nation’: New Book Tracks How Celebrity Worship Took Over in the United States

There are dark sides to the celebrity industrial complex.
by Landon Jones

(pdf copy here)

Shepherd-screenshot

April 30, 2023

Shepherd: The best books about how celebrity culture works

Shepherd.com – Discover the best books

The best books about how celebrity culture works and what it is doing to America today
by Landon Jones

(pdf copy here)

Malcolm portrait

April 29, 2021

Essay: Meeting Malcolm X – Princeton Alumni Weekly, March 19, 2021

https://paw.princeton.edu/article/essay-meeting-malcolm-x

Rodgers book

July 22, 2020

Searching for the City on a Hill, US 1 Newspaper, July 22, 2020

https://princetoninfo.com/searching-for-the-city-on-a-hill/Searching for the City on a Hill | Princeton Info

MillennialsBoomers-APNews

July 13, 2020

Millennials and Boomers: Pandemic Pain (Associated Press)

Mhttps://apnews.com/0a844a99bb56108f5512388234e190e7

Farnham MHS N34187[3]

July 2, 2020

Letter: The Man Who Walked Around the World

https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/mailbag/letter-just-like-1832-fresh-air-is-good-for-combating-disease/article_823741f6-88b5-5c39-8697-a5cce323bfd5.html

Princeton Alumni 1970

June 23, 2020

The Class of 1970 Had a Commencement to Remember – Princeton Alumni Weekly

https://paw.princeton.edu/article/essay-class-1970-had-commencement-remember

Camus Portrait

April 8, 2020

Camus’s ‘Plague’ Foretold Coronavirus. by Landon Y. Jones, Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2020

The Wall Street JournalOpinion

PrincetonInfo-TSEliot-EmilyHale

February 12, 2020

The Love Song of T.S. Eliot and Emiy Hale, by Pia de Jong and Landon Y. Jones

https://princetoninfo.com/the-love-song-of-t-s-eliot-and-emily-hale/

US 1 Newspaper, February 12, 2020

Eliot and Emily photo

January 9, 2020

Is January the Cruelest Month? Wall Street Journal, Jan. 9, 2020, by Pia de Jong and Landon Y. Jones

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-january-the-cruelest-month-11579133357

Image from NYT

July 18, 2019

Blackout Baby Boom? Not Really — Letters, New York Times, July 17, 2019

Opinion | New York Stories: Central Park and the Blackout – The New York Times

March 21, 2019

The Person Who Suggested People Magazine, New York Times (Opinion), March 18, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/opinion/letters/marian-sulzberger-heiskell-people-magazine.html

March 1, 2019

Loose Ends 3/1: Princeton’s Lanny Jones continues to prosper

Loose Ends 3/1: Princeton’s Lanny Jones continues to prosper

October 30, 2017

John McPhee: Content, Character, Commas

John McPhee- Content, Character, Commas

http://www.princetoninfo.com/index.php/component/us1more/?Itemid=6&key=10-17-17jones

September 23, 2017

Those Who Knew Princess Diana Look Back. AARP Magazine Aug/Sept 2017

http://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/info-2017/princess-diana-friends-personal-stories.html

June 9, 2017

Tribal Fever: Twenty-five years ago this month, smallpox was officialy eradicated for the Indians of the High Plains. It came a century and a half too late.

Smithsonian article on smallpox

May 11, 2017

Thalidomide and Me

Thalidomide and Me (pdf)
MPN Research Foundation
10 March 2017

February 17, 2017

America Is Forgetting Its Own History

America Is Forgetting Its Own History
by Landon Jones
Time.com Ideas
February 14, 2017

January 31, 2017

America Loves a Con Man

America Loves a Con Man
by Pia de Jong and Landon Jones
Time.com – Time Ideas
January 31, 2017

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