Thomas Doherty

Little Lindy Is Kidnapped

How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Doherty offers a lively and comprehensive cultural history of the media coverage of the abduction of the child of Charles and Anne Lindbergh and its aftermath. He traces how newspapers, radio, and newsreels reported on what was dubbed the â crime of the century.â

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780231198493
• ISBN-10: 0231198493
• Artikelnr.: 62923118

Autorenporträt

Thomas Doherty is professor of American studies at Brandeis University. His previous Columbia University Press books include Hollywood and Hitler, 1933¿1939 (2013) and Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

A Prefatory Note
Prologue: The Sky God
1. The Crime of the Century
2. A Story That Penetrated the Thickest Skin
3. A Medium of Audible Journalism
4. Nobody Ever Walked Out on a Newsreel
5. Get the Lindbergh Killers!
6. Hollywood and the Lindbergh Kidnapping
7. The Greatest Murder Trial the World Has Ever Known
8. Into the Ether
9. The Eye and Ear of Millions
10. The Verdict
11. Death Watch
Epilogue: The Legacies of the Crime of the Century
Thanks and Acknowledgments
Notes
Index