Nicholas Johnson Archives
(1) The University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections, contains some 800 boxes of papers from throughout his public life -- primarily the FCC years, 1966-73. None of these documents are available online as such. There is, however, an online inventory of the collection available from the University of Iowa. Access to the collection itself requires the permission of Nicholas Johnson and the Director.
(2) There is also a bibliography, over 300 pages in hard copy, that merely lists publications and related matter prior to 1996.
(3) Selections from Nicholas Johnson's writing prior to 1996 were available online from Sunnyside. That link is no longer working. A list of the full contents of this prior archive site is available. What are listed below are only the documents that have been put into HTML and transferred to currently available sites. More will be transferred over time. Occasionally an older document is scanned and uploaded and listed in the "Recent Publications" site described below. For example the complete texts of Test Pattern for Living and How to Talk Back to Your Television Set are available.
(4) Almost all of Nicholas Johnson's writing, speeches and transcripts since the spring of 1996 are available from the main Web site by clicking on "Nicholas Johnson Writing" and then "Recent Publications."
--N.J.,
November 19, 1999; 20000822, 20041129.
Books
How to Talk Back to Your Television Set (Boston: Little Brown, 1970)
Test
Pattern for Living (New York: Bantam, 1972)
Articles
Searching
for the Right Word: The Semantics of Heterosexual Relationships,
ETC. (Journal of the International Society for General Semantics, March
1979)