My Pilgrim's Progress Media Studies, 1950-1998

Name: My Pilgrim's Progress Media Studies, 1950-1998
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ISBN: 9780375701382

ISBN-10: 0375701389

ISBN-13: 9780375701382

Edition: N/A

Authors: George W. S. Trow

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"Original, provocative and possibly prophetic."-- The New York Times When his classic Within the Context of No Context was first published, George W. S. Trow parsed television's overwhelming dominance over America's consciousness. In My Pilgrim's Progress, he returns with a provocative tour of politics and the media to show "how 1950 got to be 1998." The son of a tabloid journalist, Trow was raised in the "Deepest Roosevelt Aesthetic," and found himself seduced by the ordinaryness of the Eisenhower era. It was a time when the Old World was giving way to the New. Perusing The New York Times of February 1950, he gives us America at the peak of its power, with its politicians and…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/2/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.56" wide x 8.50" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English