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Home town news : William Allen White and the Emporia gazette / Sally Foreman Griffith.
Newspapers.com Library Edition - World Collection Available from 1939 until 1939. Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griffith, Sally Foreman.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Emporia (Kan.)--Social life and customs.
- Emporia (Kan.).
- Emporia gazette (Emporia, Kan. : 1899).
- White, William Allen, 1868-1944.
- White, William Allen.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 291 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This biography of William Allen White, one of the best known newspaper editors of early 20th century America, is concerned not only with White's career, but also with small-town values and achievements in turn-of-the-century America, when the nation was changing dramatically.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; 1. The Education of a ""Somebody""; 2. The New Editor; 3. A Practical Printer; 4. The Making of a Progressive; 5. Booster Progressivism; 6. Spokesman for Community; 7. Community Journalism; 8. Booster Nationalism; 9. Mass Media Come to the Small Town; Epilogue; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibiography: p. [243]-282.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-52352-2
- 0-19-802226-3
- OCLC:
- 466425409
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