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Mightier than the sword : how the news media have shaped American history

Title: Mightier than the sword : how the news media have shaped American history / Rodger Streitmatter.
Author: Streitmatter, Rodger.
Publication: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997.

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Description

xii, 287 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

0813332109
9780813332109
0813332117
9780813332116

LCCN

97000769

OCLC

ocm36364071
36364071
SCSB-2113580

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library