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The Five-Year Party won the silver award in the education category of ForeWord Reviews’ 2010 Book of the Year Awards: http://www.bookoftheyearawards.com/winners/2010/category/education/.

The Five-Year Party was also mentioned in an article on NationalReview.com (approx. 1.9 million unique monthly visitors) on June 27: http://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/270508/college-pays-it-inefficient-nathan-harden.

The Five-Year Party and the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year awards nomination was mentioned in the New Hampshire Sentinel Source: http://www.sentinelsource.com/community/community_news/community-news-april/article_3589d7c9-7e8d-5b59-aaf9-4509f2426a73.html.

Craig Brandon was recently a guest on KTALK 630 in Sandy City, UT: http://tunein.com/radio/Gayle-Ruzicka-p225047/

The Five-Year Party was recently mentioned on the following sites:
* TheMoralLiberal.com: http://www.themoralliberal.com/2011/05/16/the-five-year-party/
* NewFlight.com: http://www.newflight.info/?p=544
* Education Reporter: http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2011/may11/book.html

The Five-Year Party has been named a finalist in the education category of ForeWord Reviews’ 2010 Book of the Year Awards. Read more about the awards here: http://www.bookoftheyearawards.com/.

Craig Brandon, author of The Five-Year Party will be a guest on syndicated radio show “Eagle Forum Live” with Phyllis Schlafly on April 9.

The Five-Year Party was also reviewed on the blog, “Information on the Best Special Education.” Read the review here: http://www.harrystein.com/how-colleges-have-given-up-on-educating-the-child-a-novel-review/.

The Five-Year Party was featured in the October 2010 issue of the Midwest Book Review. The review is also featured in the Cengage Learning, Gale interactive CD-ROM series “Book Review Index” as well as book review databases such as LexisNexis and Goliath. Read the review here: http://midwestbookreview.com/sbw/oct_10.htm#Education.

The Five-Year Party was recently reviewed on the blog, The Free University Project. Read the review here: http://thefreeu.blogspot.com/2011/02/five-year-party.html.

The Five-Year Party was featured in the following publications and sites:

* AOL News: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/06/opinion-is-college-worth-it/

* National Review Online: http://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/255545/murray-sperber-ithe-five-year-partyi-george-leef

* The Sacramento Bee: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/19/3333895/is-a-college-degree-the-key-to.html

* Times Union: http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Dumbed-down-diplomas-972369.php

* Education Week: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/walt_gardners_reality_check/2011/01/interview_with_the_author_of_the_five-year_party.html

* National Association of Scholars blog: http://nasblog.org/2010/12/17/murray-sperber-on-craig-brandons-the-five-year-party/

* The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy: http://popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2450

* Fourmilog: http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2010-11/001268.html

* The Center for College Affordability and Productivity: http://collegeaffordability.blogspot.com/2010/11/is-pen-mightier-than-sword.html

Craig Brandon, author of The Five-Year Party, was interviewed on New Hampshire Public Radio’s “The Exchange” on Dec. 8, 2010. Listen to the interview here: http://nhpr.org/five-year-party.

The Five-Year Party was reviewed on the Inside Higher Ed blog, University Diaries on Nov. 3, 2010: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/university_diaries/party_on

It was also featured on The Union Leader.com in the article “The five-year party—Is college worth it?” on Nov. 20, 2010: http://www.theunionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Fergus+Cullen%3A+The+five-year+party+–+Is+college+worth+it%3F&articleId=1ac110cb-a943-4df4-a964-5fdd8d6d57ed

And the book was mentioned in The Chronicle of Higher Education article, “Is the Pen Mightier Than the Sword?,” on Nov. 22, 2010: http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/is-the-pen-mightier-than-the-sword/27888

The Five-Year Party and author Craig Brandon were featured in Failure Magazine’s article, “The Five-Year Party,” by Jason Zasky: http://failuremag.com/index.php/feature/article/the_five-year_party/

The book was featured on the following sites:

*The Fiscal Times: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Issues/The-Economy/2010/10/28/High-College-Dropout-Rate-Threatens-US-Growth.aspx

*Office of the President: American Public University System: http://wallyboston.com/2010/10/27/the-five-year-party-by-craig-brandon/

*Business1001.Posterous.com: http://business1001.posterous.com/the-five-year-party-by-craig-brandon-benbella

*online newsletter BLAINESWORLD: http://www.blainesworld.net/newsletter/09.27.2010_730.asp

Craig Brandon, author of The Five-Year Party, was on Boston’s ABC affiliate, WCVB, talking about the book and its topics. See the fourth installment of the channel’s “Twenty-Somethings” segment here: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/video/25123104/detail.html

The book was briefly mentioned on a Sept. 17, 2010, BBC online article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11344228

It was also named in a Sept. 21, 2010, TIME Magazine blog post: http://money.blogs.time.com/2010/09/21/college-by-the-numbers/

The Five-Year Party was mentioned in a Sept.10, 2010, Wall Street Journal article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704644404575481861760374480.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama .

An editorial written by Brandon about the book’s theme was published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (circ. 196,200): http://www.ajc.com/opinion/party-school-label-a-614440.html

Other media include:

*Sept. 6, 2010: A bylined editorial in the New Hampshire Union Leader (circ. 49,357)

*Sept. 11, 2010: Oklahoma States Regents for Higher Education radio: http://www.okhighered.org/college-connection/audio-high.shtml

*Sept. 1, 2010: Education Week: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/walt_gardners_reality_check/2010/09/romanticists_v_determinists_in_education.html

*Sept. 14, 2010: Get Anchored Blogspot: http://getanchored.blogspot.com/2010/09/links-to-your-world-tuesday-september.html

*Sept. 22, 2010: Derek Halvorson’s Posterous: http://jdh.posterous.com/the-five-year-party

*Dragon Paradox: http://www.dragonparadox.com/online-education/onlinedegree-onlineeducation-onlinecollege-onlineschool/degree-college-by-the-numbers-is-a-degree-worth-it/

*The American Entrepreneur Radio: http://taeradio.com/episodes/archive/1598/jerry-bowyer-interviews-the-top-business-minds-from-around-the-country/

*Monadnock Taxpayers Association News: http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/09/23/what-me-study/

*Law School Manual: http://www.lawschoolmanual.com/2010/09/what-do-rising-cost-of-colleges-and.html

*Best Distance Learning: http://bestdistancelearning.info/guest-blogger-craig-brandon-author-of-the-five-year-party.html