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Covering America : a narrative history of a nation's journalism / Christopher B. Daly.
Annenberg Library - Reference PN4855 .D36 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daly, Christopher B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Journalism--United States--History.
- Journalism.
- United States.
- History.
- Press--United States--History.
- Press.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 558 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and expanded edition.
- Other Title:
- Narrative history of a nation's journalism
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. The press, 1704-1920
- Foundations of the American press, 1704-1763, Franklin and his contemporaries
- Printers take sides, 1763-1832
- Putting the news in newspapers, 1833-1850
- Radicals all! 1830-1875, covering slavery and the Civil War
- Crusaders and conservatives, 1875-1912, journalism in yellow and gray
- Professionalizing the news in peace and war, 1900-1920
- Part II. The media, 1920-
- Jazz age journalism, 1920-1929, magazines and radio challenge the newspaper
- Hard times, 1929-1941, three great columnists, two great reporters, one horrible decade
- The "good war," 1941-1945
- Creating big media, 1945-1963
- Rocking the establishment, 1962-1972
- The establishment holds, 1967-1974
- Big media gets bigger, 1980-1999
- Going digital, 1995-2008
- Revolutions and evolutions, 2008
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- "Revised and expanded in paperback 2018"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-535) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781625342980
- 1625342985
- OCLC:
- 1011557694
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