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UK Professor's Book Attracts National Interest
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 21, 2006) − A book by University of Kentucky journalism professor Richard Labunski has recently received national attention.
Esquire magazine calls Labunski's "James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights" (Oxford University Press, 2006), the "Big Important Book of the Year" in its December issue.
Labunski's book, which chronicles Madison's extraordinary efforts to see a bill of rights added to the Constitution, is also the subject of a 4,200-word review in the Nov. 30 "New York Review of Books". Professor Gordon Wood of Brown University, a highly respected historian, wrote that "With Labunski's book we now have a very readable and reliable narrative of how Madison gave birth to the Bill of Rights."
On Nov. 14, Professor Labunski was interviewed live for an hour on the "Jim Bohannon Show" on the Westwood Radio Network. The show, based in Washington, D.C., is heard on 350 stations. The next day, Labunski signed copies of the book at the National Press Club Book Fair. He also taped an interview with "Book TV" to be shown later in the fall on C-SPAN2.
The book is particularly timely. December 15 is the anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights.
The book has been reviewed or referenced in The New York Times Book Review; The Washington Post; The Washington Times; Esquire Magazine; The New York Review of Books; The Atlantic Monthly; CBS News Web site; Louisville Courier-Journal; Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader; Indianapolis Star; The New York Sun; The New York Law Journal; Library Journal; Booklist; and Publishers Weekly.
For more information about the book, visit www.richardlabunski.com.
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