The weekly war : how the Saturday evening post reported World War I / Chris Dubbs and Carolyn Edy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dubbs, Chris (Military historian), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saturday evening post (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1839).

American periodicals--History--20th century.

American periodicals.

World War, 1914-1918--Press coverage--United States.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Journalism, Military--United States.

War in mass media--Sources.

War in mass media.

Genre:

Personal narratives

Primary sources

Personal narratives, American

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Denton, TX : University of North Texas Press, [2023]

Summary:

"An elite team of reporters brought the Great War home each week to ten million readers of The Saturday Evening Post. As America's largest circulation magazine, the Post hired the nation's best-known and best-paid writers to cover World War I. The Weekly War provides a history of the unique record Post storytellers created of World War I, the distinct imprint the Post made on the field of war reporting, and the ways in which Americans witnessed their first world war. The Weekly War includes representative articles from across the span of the conflict, and Chris Dubbs and Carolyn Edy complement these works with essays about the history and significance of the magazine, the war, and the writers. By the start of the Great War, The Saturday Evening Post had become the most successful and influential magazine in the United States, a source of entertainment, instruction, and news, as well as a shared experience. World War I served as a four-year experiment in how to report a modern war. The news-gathering strategies and news-controlling practices developed in this war were largely duplicated in World War II and later wars. Over the course of some thousand articles by some of the most prolific writers of the era, The Saturday Evening Post played an important role in the evolution of war reporting during World War I"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Post Dives In, 1914-1915:

The Team and the Times, 1914-1915

Approaching the Battlelines:

"A Ship Without a Port" / Samuel G. Blythe

"Looking for War in a Taxicab" / Irvin S. Cobb

"The Women of France" / Corra Harris

The Shock of War: "A Reserved Seat " / Irvin S. Cobb

"The Bravest of the Brave" / Corra Harris

"No Man's Land" by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Civilization Ablaze: "The Toll" / Samuel G. Blythe

"Europe's Rag Doll" / Irvin S. Cobb

"Red Badge of Mercy" / Mary Roberts Rinehart

A Growing Shadow of War, 1915-1916: The Team and the Times, 1915-1916

Beyond the Western Front: "The Singing Soldiers" / Samuel G. Blythe

"Day by Day in Constantinople" / Eleanor Franklin Egan

"On the Isonzo Front" / Will Irwin

Suffering Patiently Endured: "Getting Out the Wounded" / Will Irwin

"Seven Million Hornets" / Eleanor Franklin Egan

"Ward Eighty-Three" / Elizabeth Frazer

America Declares War, 1917-1918: The Team and the Times, 1917-1918

The Price to Pay: "Industrial Amazons" / Mary Brush Williams

"An Army of Homesick Old Men" / Herbert Corey

"When the Sea Asp Stings" / Irvin S. Cobb

Building the Army: "Under the Guns" / George Pattullo

"Striking Our Stride in France" / George Pattullo

"Homo Americanus in Gay Paree" / Elizabeth Frazer

America in the Fight: "The Spite Attack" / Elizabeth Frazer

"The Zero Hour" / George Pattullo

"When It Dawned" / Maude Radford Warren

The Aftermath, 1919: The Team and The Times, 1919

With the Post-Armistice Army: "The March into Germany" / Maude Radford Warren

"Ships of Destiny" by David Lawrence

"The Random Notes of an Amerikansky" / Kenneth L. Roberts

Peace in a Shattered World: "The Signature" / Elizabeth Frazer

"This to be Said for the Turk" / Eleanor Franklin Egan

"Ruins" / Elizabeth Frazer

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Dubbs, Chris The Weekly War

ISBN:

9781574419009

OCLC:

1366102826