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Andrew Johnstone

@historyandrew.bsky.social

Now available on bluesky. Mostly history. Occasional Yacht Rock and sport. Author of Spinning the World: The Public Relations Industry and American Foreign Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and more

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Thank you! Looking forward to your new book in the spring.

24.07.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Available in at least one good bricks-and-mortar bookshop.

24.07.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Don't just take my word for it...

24.07.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Official publication day!

24.07.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Considering it was the first album after Peter Cetera left, it's not bad

23.07.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New book. Unimpressed cat.

14.07.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also excited

07.07.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social so much again for creating the paperback proof prototype! Can't wait to hold the real thing when it's out next month.

30.06.2025 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fantastic to see a pre-publication proofs copy of my forthcoming book here in the front row

27.06.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

See you there

18.06.2025 06:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Spinning the World | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

See here for more book details, including the table of contents and some very generous blurbs: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

09.05.2025 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My book has a cover! Out this summer πŸ—ƒ

09.05.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Always nice to see a copy of my last book out in the wild, especially in Strand Bookstore, possibly my favourite book store in the world

28.04.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Strangeways! Their second and third albums are awesome. Only a fool would dislike Only a Fool. May I also suggest Canada's Wall of Silence for the parking lot?

04.04.2025 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Proofs proofed

04.04.2025 10:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Rob - are you SHAFRing this year?

20.02.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Publishers can get rid of blurbs if they want, but for now I'm very happy to have these for my forthcoming book πŸ—ƒ

20.02.2025 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

BAAS regrets to announce that the BAAS / US Embassy Small Grants Programme has been cancelled. 1/7

10.02.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 135    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 32
A screenshot of the Cambridge University Press webpage for my forthcoming book, Spinning the World

A screenshot of the Cambridge University Press webpage for my forthcoming book, Spinning the World

Spinning the World has a web page! More details on there to follow, which I will use as an excuse to repost this at future intervalsπŸ—ƒοΈ@cambridgeup.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

27.01.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of the Cambridge University Press webpage for my forthcoming book, Spinning the World

A screenshot of the Cambridge University Press webpage for my forthcoming book, Spinning the World

Spinning the World has a web page! More details on there to follow, which I will use as an excuse to repost this at future intervalsπŸ—ƒοΈ@cambridgeup.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

27.01.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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THE meme of 2025 for me.

24.01.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 8092    πŸ” 984    πŸ’¬ 96    πŸ“Œ 314

But is it tired of being alone?

17.01.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The phrase "inside baseball" is itself "inside baseball"

24.12.2024 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My favourite "I had to end somewhere" ending

17.12.2024 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Soooo good. Great to see everyone involved get the recognition they deserve... and that includes you and JD. Thanks for the heads up!

10.12.2024 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
H-Diplo Roundtable XXVI-13 on Irwin, _Catastrophic Diplomacy_ | H-Net H-Diplo Roundtable XXVI-13Julia Irwin. Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century. University of North Carolina Press, 2024. ISBN: 9781469677231

I absolutely loved @juliairwin.bsky.social's recent book Catastrophic Diplomacy, and enjoyed contributing to this fantastic roundtable review of it for @h-diplo.bsky.social: networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
Check it out if you're interested in disaster relief, foreign aid, and US foreign policy!

09.12.2024 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Not much to add, but Roll cites Haynes and Klehr (though not the above article)

09.12.2024 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Brooke L. Blower. Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am’s Yankee Clipper. Given the amount of literature on the subject, it is not easy to come up with a truly original history of the Second World War. But that is exactly what Br

My AHR review of Brooke Blower's Americans in a World at War is finally out. Nice to review a book I really liked for a change.

07.12.2024 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So there will be Pages, but a limited number of pages on Pages?

05.12.2024 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Added!

21.11.2024 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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