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At the height of World War I, in the winter of 1917 1918, one of the Progressive era s most successful muckracking journalists, Ray Stannard Baker (1870 1946), set out on a special mission to Europe on behalf of the Wilson administration. While posing as a foreign correspondent for the New Republic and the New York World, Baker assessed public opinion in Europe about the war and post-war settlement. American officials in the White House and State Department held Baker s wide-ranging, trenchant reports in high regard. After the war, Baker remained in government service as the president s press…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
At the height of World War I, in the winter of 1917 1918, one of the Progressive era s most successful muckracking journalists, Ray Stannard Baker (1870 1946), set out on a special mission to Europe on behalf of the Wilson administration. While posing as a foreign correspondent for the New Republic and the New York World, Baker assessed public opinion in Europe about the war and post-war settlement. American officials in the White House and State Department held Baker s wide-ranging, trenchant reports in high regard. After the war, Baker remained in government service as the president s press secretary at the Paris Peace Conference, where the Allied victors dictated the peace terms to the defeated Central Powers.
Autorenporträt
Robert Mann holds the Manship Chair in Mass Communication and is director of the Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs in the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. John Maxwell Hamilton is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor and founding dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University.