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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Streitmatter, Rodger. Mightier than the sword. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997 (OCoLC)645847776 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rodger Streitmatter |
| ISBN: | 0813332109 9780813332109 0813332117 9780813332116 |
| OCLC Number: | 36364071 |
| Description: | xii, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Sowing the seeds of Revolution -- Abolition: turning America's conscience against the sins of slavery -- Slowing the momentum for women's rights -- Attacking municipal corruption: the Tweed ring -- Journalism as warmonger: the Spanish-American War -- Muckraking: the golden age of journalism -- Defying the Ku Klux Klan -- Father Coughlin: formenting anti-semitism via the radio -- Creating "Rosie the Riveter": propelling the American woman into the workforce -- Exposing Joe McCarthy: television's finest hour -- Pushing the civil rights movement onto the national agenda -- Vietnam War: bringing the battlefield into the American living room -- Watergate forces the president to his knees -- Rush Limbaugh: leading the Republican revolution -- How the news media have shaped history: focusing on the how. |
| Responsibility: | Rodger Streitmatter. |
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Abstract:
Mightier than the Sword describes fourteen discrete episodes in American history during which the news media have played a critical role in shaping landmark events.
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