Thanks for sharing, looks interesting!
Such an honor to receive this recognition for my book!
Archie Bunker for President was my dream project and I enjoyed every step of the process. I'm particularly glad to see the award committee describe it as an "insightful and thoroughly entertaining book."
Wonderful news, Niki!! Congratulations 👏 👏 👏
Excellent stack!! I love it when colleagues share their reading lists.
Honored that Archie Bunker for President is among the finalists for the SMU Center for Presidential History Book Prize!!
Television entertainment is often dismissed as trivial, so this recognition of my book as political/presidential history means a lot.
One of the reasons I'm on social media is the regular reminders when the books I have been looking forward to are out in the world!
This month marks 55 years since the premiere of All in the Family. Historian @oscarwinberg.bsky.social, author of Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics (2025) explains the show's transformative impact on American television. 🗃️
Thanks for the rec, Mel Brooks is a gift!!
This is valid. It's also an argument for the political value of something like Fox News in driving issue salience. There's an infrastructure on the right that is missing on the left.
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
That's... a choice. Also, there was no *live* footage from the Hilton, Grant Park, or Michigan Ave.
If you need a break from the news (and you do), listen to the latest episode of Unsung History with @oscarwinberg.bsky.social and learn who Archie Bunker endorsed in the 1972 presidential election.
I can't believe Bari Weiss is making me post Aaron fuckin' Sorkin content but this seemed kind of obvious.
youtu.be/wTjMqda19wk?...
Carroll O'Connor was once the most recognized face in the nation and yet everybody* misspelled his name *all* the time.
*most people, not literally everybody.
This. Always this. youtu.be/uq-gYOrU8bA?...
If memory serves, this parody was made for a dinner celebrating Bob Wood of CBS.
Formally, it was a National Association of Broadcasters policy but, as a court concluded in a 1976 lawsuit by Lear et al, the FCC was actually behind it.
I have two chapters on it here: uncpress.org/978146969090...
I can, indeed, confirm. There are, in fact, several episodes where people Archie dislikes pass away and even then he's capable of compassion.
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Heartwarming look at Rob Reiner's remarkable career @sepinwall.bsky.social
My only note: the famous "a sock and a sock or a sock and a short"-scene was the result not of the excellent writers but of Reiner and O'Connor playing around with the characters.
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
The obituaries will describe him as an actor, director, philanthropist, and political activist.
Most of all, I think he was a funny and decent man seeking to make the world a better place. That's how I'll remember him.
He often acknowledged Lear's influence on his political activism.
And still I think it is fair to say that his work for liberal candidates and causes was unparalleled in Hollywood.
I remember a comment he once made about how Stand by Me was the first thing he did that his father could not have done.
That comment was full of love and respect.
After a decade studying All in the Family, I have so many fond memories of Rob Reiner.
He was, in many ways, a man defined by the work of his father, Carl Reiner, and a father figure, Norman Lear. And yet, he stood in nobody's shadow.
I have been sitting with the heartbreaking news about Rob and Michele Reiner for a while now, struggling to find the right words.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Did you or anyone you know dance on Soul Train in the 1970s?
Looking for folks to interview for some book research
Thanks!
#BlackSky
Published last week: Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics.
For anybody interested in media, politics, and how television remade political campaigns and institutions in its image.
uncpress.org/978146969090...
In my head I just read it in Lyndon's voice 😂
LBJ?
Congratulations, turns out we're publication day twins!!
