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I Like To Watch: Arguing My Way Through The TV Revolution

by Emily Nussbaum

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I Like To Watch: Arguing My Way Through The TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum appears in NPR’s 2019 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, nonfiction, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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