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The Tyranny of Email (Hardcover)

By: John Freeman (Author)

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"I have felt e-mail's tyranny, and Freeman has some good innings on this subject....[But i]n his zeal to expose e-mail's dark side, Freeman...ignores its good and useful features."

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In THE TYRANNY OF E-MAIL, John Freeman takes an entertaining look at the nature of correspondence through the ages. From love poems delivered on clay tablets to the art of the letter to the first era of information overload (via the telegraph) to the vast network brought on by the Internet, Freeman answers the difficult question, Where is this taking us?

Put down your BlackBerry and consider the consequences. As the toll of e-mail mounts by reducing our time for leisure and contemplation and by separating us from one another in an unending and lonely battle with the overfull inbox, John Freeman--one of America's preeminent literary critics--enters a plea for communication that is more selective and nuanced and, above all, more sociable.

The award-winning former president of the National Book Critics Circle traces a short history of the human need for correspondence and examines the astonishing growth of email--and how it is changing our lives, not always for the better.

JOHN FREEMAN is an award-winning writer and book critic who has written for numerous publications, including "The New York Times Book Review," the "Los Angeles Times," "The Guardian," and "The Wall Street Journal." Freeman won the 2007 James Patterson PageTurner Award. He was recently named editor of "Granta." He lives in New York City.

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