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Mightier Than the Sword : How the News Media Have Shaped American History
ISBN: 9780813343907 | 0813343909
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Books
Pub. Date: 12/24/2007
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In this pathbreaking book, Rodger Streitmatter takes the reader on a sightseeing tour of American history as influenced by the public press, visiting fifteen landmark events in US history, from the American Revolution and the struggle for women's rights to the civil rights movement and Watergate. These are events that stir the political imagination; but, as Streitmatter shows, they also demonstrate how American journalism, since the 1760s, has not merelyrecordedthis nation's history but has played a role inshapingit. This book is the first of i... MORE
| List of Illustrations | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Sowing the Seeds of Revolution | p. 7 |
| Abolition: Turning America's Conscience Against the Sins of Slavery | p. 25 |
| Slowing the Momentum for Women's Rights | p. 41 |
| Attacking Municipal Corruption: The Tweed Ring | p. 58 |
| Journalism as Warmonger: The Spanish-Americ... MORE | p. 75 |
| Muckraking: The Golden Age of Reform Journalism | p. 93 |
| Defying the Ku Klux Klan | p. 109 |
| Father Coughlin: Fomenting Anti-Semitism via the Radio | p. 126 |
| Creating "Rosie the Riveter": Propelling the American Woman into the Workforce | p. 142 |
| Exposing Joe McCarthy: Television's Finest Hour | p. 157 |
| Pushing the Civil Rights Movement onto the National Agenda | p. 174 |
| Vietnam War: Bringing the Battlefield into the American Living Room | p. 192 |
| Watergate Forces the President to His Knees | p. 210 |
| Rush Limbaugh: Leading the Republican Revolution | p. 225 |
| 9/11: Failing the American Public | p. 240 |
| How the News Media Have Shaped American History: Focusing on the How | p. 256 |
| Notes | p. 265 |
| Bibliography | p. 305 |
| About the Book and Author | p. 313 |
| Index | p. 315 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Rodger Streitmatter teaches at the School of Communication at the American University in Washington, DC. His the author of Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History and Voices of Revolution: The Dissident Press in America.
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