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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Douglas, George H., 1934- Golden Age of the newspaper. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607277998 Online version: Douglas, George H., 1934- Golden Age of the newspaper. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999 (OCoLC)609191496 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
George H Douglas |
| ISBN: | 0313310777 9780313310775 |
| OCLC Number: | 40423130 |
| Description: | xiii, 300 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Penny papers : the printed word for democratic man -- The quest for a real newspaper -- Giants of a new age : James Gordon Bennett and Horace Greeley -- Newspapers move west - ferment in the South -- The Civil War - the indispensability of news -- Dana and the New York Sun -the news story as art -- Newspapers in the Gilded Age -- Dangerous crossroads : Pulitzer and Hearst -- The rise of the New York Times -- Of evenings, and Sundays, and funnies, and such -- Newspaper chains and press associations -- Fantasy and reality : the newspaper reporter -- When the women marched in -- The newspaper sage : from our town to Olympus -- The foreign language press -- Tabloids -- A bright and shining moment. |
| Responsibility: | George H. Douglas. |
Abstract:
From the arrival of the penny papers in the 1830s to the coming of radio news around 1930, the American newspaper celebrated its Golden Age and years of greatest influence on society. Born in response to a thirst for news in large eastern cities such as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, the mood of the modern metropolitan papers eventually spread throughout the nation. Douglas tells the story of the great innovators of the American press - men like Bennett, Greeley, Bryant, Dana, Pulitzer, Hearst, and Scripps. He details the development of the bond between newspapers and the citizens of a democratic republic, and how the newspapers molded themselves into a distinctly American character to become an intimate part of daily life.
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