For the last three centuries, newspapers have been largely responsible for providing the delivery of in-depth information and public opinion to the average American citizen. This has been especially true during the last half of the 20th century, when American journalism has continued to play a significant role in shaping the nations communication spectrum on regional, national and global levels. DLB Volume 127 chronicles the story of American newspaper development from 1950 to 1990, focusing particularly on the powerful ...
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For the last three centuries, newspapers have been largely responsible for providing the delivery of in-depth information and public opinion to the average American citizen. This has been especially true during the last half of the 20th century, when American journalism has continued to play a significant role in shaping the nations communication spectrum on regional, national and global levels. DLB Volume 127 chronicles the story of American newspaper development from 1950 to 1990, focusing particularly on the powerful publishers and business managers who have established renowned newspapers and have forged influential newspaper chains, multimedia corporations and media conglomerates. Included is a list of suggested books for further reading. The entries include: Frank Bartholomew, Turner Catledge, Jonathan Daniels, Katherine Fanning, Wes Gallagher, Philip and Katherine Graham, William Randolph Hearst, Jr., Ralph Ingersoll, Samuel Kauffmann, William Loeb, Rupert Murdoch, Alicia Patterson, Dorothy Schiff, and John Hay Whitney.
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Near Fine. First edition, 1993. Cloth hardcover, 424 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, light foxing to the page-edges, no dust jacket. No ownership marks, but this was Editorial Director Matthew J. Bruccoli's copy. Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of Hemingway, Hammett, Cozzens, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and Vladimir Nabokov. He studied bibliography under the tutelage of Fredson Bowers and worked with Jacob Blanck on the Bibliography of American Literature. He was responsible for the republication and rediscovery of dozens of forgotten American novels, and went on to be the editor and publisher of the 400+ volume Dictionary of Literary Biography, and was the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press bibliography series.
