From The Chronicle of Higher Education, Ghost Writers: Let us now praise anonymous journal-article reviewers, for they toil in a valuable, unappreciated literary genre. Tom Bower, the controversial biographer, takes a ringside seat for the trial of his latest subject, Lord Black. Outside the courtroom, he absorbs the culture of Chicago and takes a gamble on a break to Vegas.

The Bancroft maxim of "Never sell Grandpa's paper" is facing its toughest test. Despite their tentative no to News Corp.'s overture for Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones, family members — grown apart and lacking a clear leader — have been working nonstop behind the scenes to establish a consensus. From Foreign Policy, an interview with Devin Leonard of Fortune on Murdoch as a media pioneer seizing the future while others are fleeing.

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