Paperback Row By ELSA DIXLER

AS SEEN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW

Norman Pearlstine was the editor in chief of Time Inc. when Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor investigating the leak of Wilson’s identity, subpoenaed the notes of the Time reporter Matt Cooper, and he was widely criticized when he decided to turn them over. In OFF THE RECORD: The Press, the Government, and the War Over Anonymous Sources (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $15, Pearlstine questions whether the news media have a right to keep their sources secret. READ MORE...