Text Publishing is an independent Australian publisher whose authors include Helen Garner, J. M. Coetzee, Barack Obama and whom else?
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Text Publishing Text Publishing is an independent Australian publisher of fiction and non-fiction. Its authors include Helen Garner, J. M. Coetzee, Barack Obama, Tim Flannery, Kate Grenville, Graeme Simsion, Peter Temple, Murray Bail, John Clarke, M. J. Hyland, Herman Koch, Lionel Shriver, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, among many others.
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Tim Flannery Timothy Fridtjof "Tim" Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist. He was the Chief Commissioner of the Climate Commission, a Federal Government body providing information on climate change to the Australian public. On 23 September 2013, Flannery announced that he would join other sacked commissioners to form the independent Climate Council, that would be funded by the community.
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Jeff McMullen Jeffrey John "Jeff" McMullen AM, is an Australian journalist and author and television presenter. He was a foreign correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for almost two decades (1966–1984), international reporter for the investigative television program "Four Corners" and later joined the Australian version of "60 Minutes" (1984–2000). In 2007 he hosted a 33-part discussion series on ABC1 titled "Difference of Opinion". and later chaired many Indigenous forums on NITV. He is the author of a number of books including A Life of Extremes - Journeys and Encounters (HarperCollins Australia 2001); Dispossession : Neo Liberism and The Struggle For Aboriginal Land Ands Rights In The 21ST Century ( IN BLACK & WHITE, Connor Court Publishing, 2013) and Rolling Thunder: Voices Against Oppression (The Intervention 2013)
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Barack Obama assassination plot in Tennessee The Barack Obama assassination plot in Tennessee was an alleged plot by Paul Schlesselman and Daniel Cowart to assassinate Barack Obama, who was then the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nominee. The two men, both of whom held strong white supremacist beliefs, spoke of killing Obama during a planned murder spree of 88 African Americans in Tennessee, many of whom were young students at an unidentified, predominantly black school.
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Desirée Rogers Desirée Glapion Rogers (born June 18, 1959, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American business executive who is currently chief executive officer of Johnson Publishing Company, overseeing "Jet" and "Ebony" magazines. In November 2008 she was selected by Barack Obama's office as the White House Social Secretary for the incoming administration, the first person of African-American descent to serve in this function. She served this position through February 2010.
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Obama Doctrine The Obama Doctrine is a catch-all term frequently used to describe one or several principles of the foreign policy of U.S. President Barack Obama. It is still not agreed whether there was an actual Obama Doctrine. Nevertheless, during an interview with the New York Times, Obama briefly commented about the doctrine saying: ""You asked about an Obama doctrine, the doctrine is we will engage, but we preserve all our capabilities"".
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Joy-Ann Reid Joy-Ann M. Lomena-Reid (born December 8, 1968), also known as Joy Reid, is an American cable television host and a national correspondent at MSNBC. She is also a regular political commentator on both television and in publications such as "The Daily Beast". In 2016, she wrote a book on the recent history of the Democratic Party, called "Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide".
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Laura Tingle Laura Tingle is an Australian journalist and author, who is currently the political editor for "The Australian Financial Review".
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Tim Hays Howard H “Tim” Hays, Jr. (June 2, 1917 – October 14, 2011) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning publisher of the Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California. He was a lifelong advocate for open government and gained national fame for his efforts to defend and define First Amendment rights of the press.
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Paul Ramadge Paul Andrew Godwin Ramadge (born 6th June 1958) is a noted Australian journalist and knowledge-sector leader. He was editor-in-chief of "The Age", a daily newspaper in Melbourne, from 2008 to June 2012. He is a Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow at Monash University (2012 -) and was the inaugural Director of the Australia-Indonesia Centre (2013-2016), based at Monash University but bringing together eleven universities in the two nations to drive collaborative research, strengthen relationships and networks, and analyse attitudes and perceptions.
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Obama (disambiguation) Barack Obama (born 1961) is a former President of the United States.
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Nelson George Nelson George (born September 1, 1957) is an African-American author, columnist, music and culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker. He has been nominated twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Nathaniel Lande Nathaniel Lande, born of Canadian parents, is a journalist, author, and filmmaker with a career spanning several decades. He is the author of ten books including "Cricket" and "Dispatches from the Front: A History of the American War Correspondent", and was a creative force behind Time, Inc. during his tenure.
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John Podhoretz John Mordecai Podhoretz ( ; born April 18, 1961) is an American writer. He is the editor of "Commentary" magazine, columnist for the "New York Post", the author of several books on politics, and a former presidential speechwriter.
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Guy Pearse Guy Pearse is an Australian author and former Research Fellow at the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland. His first book titled "High & Dry: John Howard, climate change and the selling of Australia's future" was published in 2007. In 2009, Pearse published a critique of the Rudd government's response to climate change in Quarterly Essay 33: Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom. In 2012, he published Greenwash: Big Brands and Carbon Scams – an analysis of whether the climate-friendly revolution being advertised by large multinationals is real.
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Anne Manne Anne Manne is an Australian journalist and social philosopher.
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Chris Hughes Christopher "Chris" Hughes (born (1983--) 26, 1983 ) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Andrew McCollum. He was the publisher and editor-in-chief of "The New Republic" from 2012 to 2016.
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Mark Whittaker Mark Cornelius Whittaker (born July 1965) is an Australian journalist and non-fiction writer.
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Michelle Kennedy Hogan Michelle Kennedy Hogan (née Michelle Louise Kennedy, July 12, 1972) is an American author and editor.
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Jhumpa Lahiri Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri (Bengali: ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী ; born on July 11, 1967) is an American author. Lahiri has been selected as the winner of the 29th PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short story. Lahiri's debut short story collection "Interpreter of Maladies" (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, "The Namesake" (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna but goes by her nickname Jhumpa. Lahiri was a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama. (She resigned from the President's Committee in August, 2017, co-signing a letter of resignation that said in reference to President Trump, "Ignoring your hateful rhetoric would have made us complicit in your words and actions.") Her book "The Lowland", published in 2013, was a nominee for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction. Lahiri is currently a professor of creative writing at Princeton University.
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First inauguration of Barack Obama The first inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States took place on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. The inauguration, which set a record attendance for any event held in Washington, D.C., marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Barack Obama as President and Joe Biden as Vice President. Based on the combined attendance numbers, television viewership, and Internet traffic, it was among the most-observed events ever by the global audience.
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John Milligan-Whyte John Milligan-Whyte (born February 17, 1952, in Pasadena, USA) is a businessman, lawyer and moral and political philosopher, who China’s official media refer to as the “new Edgar Snow” and the “twenty-first century Kissinger.” He is the co-author of the Proposed US-China Grand Strategy Agreement Between President Hu and President Obama and of books that present grand strategies required for the collaboration of civilizations and the prevention of human extinction.