Mightier Than the Sword How the News Media Have Shaped American History

Name: Mightier Than the Sword How the News Media Have Shaped American History
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ISBN: 9780813343907

ISBN-10: 0813343909

ISBN-13: 9780813343907

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Rodger Streitmatter

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Book details

List price: $44.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/25/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.90" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



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 Reform Journalism



Defying the Ku Klux Klan



Father Coughlin: Fomenting 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



9/11: Failing the American Public



How the News Media Have Shaped American History: Focusing on the How


Notes


Bibliography


About the Book and Author


Index