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Reassessing John Hersey

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Simon Sweetman
Jul 13, 2022
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John Hersey’s “The Legend on the License”, a piece from The Yale Review, winter edition, 1986, shows an interesting – passive – attack on the New Journalism of the 80s, springing of course from the New Journalism of the mid-60s. Not so much an outright attack, as a critical dissection of the confounding issue of combining journalism (or facts) with crea…

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