Bruce J Evensen

Journalism and the American Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

Journalism and the American Experience offers a comprehensive examination of the critical role journalism has played in the struggle over America's democratic institutions and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9781138044821
• ISBN-10: 1138044822
• Artikelnr.: 51279619

Autorenporträt

Bruce Evensen is a journalism historian who directs DePaul University's Graduate Program in Journalism. He spent a decade as a broadcast journalist and bureau chief in Washington D.C. and Jerusalem. His books include Truman, Palestine and the Press: Shaping Conventional Wisdom at the Beginning of the Cold War; The Responsible Reporter; and God's Man for the Gilded Age: D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Journalism and the Story of American Exceptionalism
Chapter One - The Trans-Atlantic Enlightenment and Colonial America
Chapter Two - "At Every House Women Are Making Cartridges and Children Are
Running Bullets and Biscuits": Revolution in America
Chapter Three - Building "an Empire of Liberty"
Chapter Four - The Penny Press and Mass Democracy
Chapter Five - "The New Birth" and the War Between the States
Chapter Six - New Journalism for a New Nation
Chapter Seven - The Progressive Period
Chapter Eight - "The Sewage of the War Spirit" and Jazz Journalism
Chapter Nine - "Misery and Human Fortitude": The Dust Bowl and the Great
Depression
Chapter Ten - "The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself": Franklin
Roosevelt and the Radio Republic"
Chapter Eleven - A 'Cold War' and a 'New Frontier'
Chapter Twelve - 'An American Nightmare': JFK, LBJ and the War in Vietnam
Chapter Thirteen - The Struggle for Civil Rights and the Battle of Chicago
Chapter Fourteen - "What a Moment, Man on the Way to the Moon"
Chapter Fifteen - 'Our Long National Nightmare Is Over': Watergate as
Third-Rate Burglary and Cancer on the Presidency
Chapter Sixteen - Reagan's 'Shining City on a Hill' and Cable's Clinton
Impeachment Scandal
Chapter Seventeen - 9/11 and Covering Wars on Terror
Chapter Eighteen - Reporting Obama and Trump in the Age of the Internet