Creating America : George Horace Lorimer and the Saturday evening post / Jan Cohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohn, Jan, 1933-2004, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lorimer, George Horace, 1869-1937.

Lorimer, George Horace.

Saturday evening post--History.

Saturday evening post.

Corporate culture--United States--History--20th century.

Corporate culture.

American periodicals--History--20th century.

American periodicals.

United States--Social conditions.

United States.

United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

United States--Social life and customs--20th century.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation Before movies, radio, and television challenged the hegemony of the printed word, theSaturday Evening Postwas the preeminent vehicle of mass culture in the United States. And to the extent that a mass medium can be the expression of a single individual, this magazine, with a peak circulation of almost three million copies a week, was the expression of its editor, George Horace Lorimer. Cohn shows how Lorimer made the Post into a uniquely powerful magazine that both celebrated and helped form the values of the time.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. 1897-1907 - "The Greatest Weekly Magazine in the World

2. 1908-1913 - "More Than a Million a Week

3. 1914-1918 - "A Great Social Influence

4. 1919-1922 - "The Foolish Ideas We Have Imported

5. 1923-1929 - "This Niagara of Print

6. 1930-1936 - "There is Nothing the Matter with America Except Damfoolishness

Epilogue: George Horace Lorimer, the Boss

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-311) and index.

ISBN:

9780822971450

0822971453

OCLC:

887803666