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Covering America : a narrative history of a nation's journalism / Christopher B. Daly.

Van Pelt Library 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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