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Daniel Akst - Dan Akst is a journalist, essayist and novelist who wrote three books. His novel, The Webster Chronicle, is based on the lives of Cotton and Increase Mather. More

Dan Akst is a journalist, novelist and essayist whose work has appeared frequently in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Wilson Quarterly, and many other publications.
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The death of newspapers (why we should care edition)

By Daniel Akst

Jun 10 2009, 3:58 PM ET Comment


Read it and weep, as the saying goes.




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