Prologue to a farce : communication and democracy in America / Mark Lloyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lloyd, Mark.

Series:

History of communication

The history of communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication policy--United States--History.

Communication policy.

Democracy--United States.

Democracy.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 338 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006]

Summary:

The cure for an American media where market interests have usurped democratic participation

Contents:

Part I Communications and Democracy in America

1 The Challenge of American Democracy 11

2 The Role of Communications in the Democratic Experiment 23

Part II A Brief History of U.S. Communications Policy

3 The Break: The Telegraph from Jackson to Hayes (1830-1876) 39

4 The Telephone and the Trusts (1876-1900) 59

5 From Roosevelt to Roosevelt: Wireless and Radio (1900-1934) 77

6 From Truman to Eisenhower: The Birth of Television (1935-1959) 121

7 Kennedy, Johnson, and Satellites (1960-1968) 147

8 From Nixon to Reagan: Backlash and Cable (1968-1991) 167

9 The Internet: Communications Policy in the Clinton Era (1992-2000) 195

10 The End of History 223

Part III Reclaiming Our Republic

11 A Few Lessons 237

12 Reclaiming Our Republic 261.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-327) and index.

ISBN:

0252031040

0252073428

OCLC:

70199881

Publisher Number:

9780252031045

9780252073427