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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Barnouw, Erik. History of broadcasting in the United States. Volume 1, A tower in Babel : to 1933. New York : Oxford University Press, ©1966 344 pages |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Erik Barnouw |
ISBN: | 9780195004748 0195004744 9780198020035 0198020031 |
OCLC Number: | 1030911191 |
Notes: | Restrictions on access to electronic version: access available to SOAS staff and students only, using SOAS id and password. |
Description: | 1 online resource (367 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Introduction -- 1 VOICES -- The black box -- On native soil -- Voices in the night -- Mission in the ether -- The greatest bunch of junk -- Builders -- 2 WAR -- The big ones -- Cloak and dagger wireless -- Golden sunset -- Watching the ramparts -- Covenants quietly arrived at -- Ferment -- Decision in Pittsburgh -- 3 TOWERS -- Up a ladder in Newark -- Chicago, city of opera -- The euphoria of 1922 -- Phone booth of the air -- Discord -- Shade of the potted palm -- Explorations: 1923-24 -- Washington gifts -- Dear, dear friends -- Crisis in the air -- 4 WEB -- Upstart -- A law is made -- The Coolidge hour -- Birth of the FRC -- Pluck and luck -- Ain't dat sumpin'? -- Upward -- 5 PANIC -- But first -- Come in, world -- Ghosts -- Arena -- November deadline -- God and Mammon -- Chat -- APPENDIX A: Chronology -- APPENDIX B: Laws -- The Radio Act of 1912 -- The Radio Act of 1927 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z. |
Responsibility: | Erik Barnouw. |
Abstract:
Tells how radio and television became an integral part of American life, of how a toy became an industry and a force in politics, business, education, religion, and international affairs.
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