Louis W. Liebovich

Bylines in Despair (eBook, PDF)

Herbert Hoover, the Great Depression, and the U.S. News Media

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Through a long public life and short presidency, Herbert Hoover carefully cultivated reporters and media owners as he rose from a relief administrator to president of the United States. During his service to government, he held the conviction that journalists were to be manipulated and mistrusted. When the nation fell into economic disaster, Hoover's misconceptions about the press and press relations exacerbated a national calamity. This book traces the entire history of Hoover's relationship with magazines, newspapers, newsreel organizations, and radio, and demonstrates how an attitude toward the U.S. press can help or hinder a public figure throughout his career. The book draws upon diaries of Hoover aides, oral histories from journalists and other media figures, newspaper and magazine clippings, radio broadcasts, newsreels, public documents, archival manuscripts, and a plethora of published secondary books and articles. This may be the most complete and best-documented study of a single president and the media.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 1994
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313388330
• Artikelnr.: 37836267

Autorenporträt

LOUIS W. LIEBOVICH is Professor of Journalism at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Professor Liebovich has also written The Press and the Origins of the Cold War, 1944-1947 (1988, Praeger) and Bylines of Despair: Herbert Hoover, the Great Depression, and the U.S. News Media (1994, Praeger).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Prologue The Unlikely Road to Success Secretary of Commerce The Campaign and Aftermath of the 1928 Election Lost Opportunities The Crash Radio
Newsreels
Newspapers
and the Presidency The Bonus March The Dawn of the Roosevelt Era Epilogue Bibliography Index