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Author Streitmatter, Rodger.

Title Mightier than the sword : how the news media have shaped American history / Rodger Streitmatter
Edition Second edition
Published Boulder, CO : Westview Press, [2008]
©2008

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 MELB  070.4493240973 Str/Mtt 2008  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents 1. Sowing the Seeds of Revolution -- 2. Abolition: Turning America's Conscience Against the Sins of Slavery -- 3. Slowing the Momentum for Women's Rights -- 4. Attacking Municipal Corruption: The Tweed Ring -- 5. Journalism as Warmonger: The Spanish-American War -- 6. Muckraking: The Golden Age of Reform Journalism -- 7. Defying the Ku Klux Klan -- 8. Father Coughlin: Fomenting Anti-Semitism via the Radio -- 9. Creating "Rosie the Riveter": Propelling the American Woman into the Workforce -- 10. Exposing Joe McCarthy: Television's Finest Hour -- 11. Pushing the Civil Rights Movement onto the National Agenda -- 12. Vietnam War: Bringing the Battlefield into the American Living Room -- 13. Watergate Forces the President to His Knees -- 14. Rush Limbaugh: Leading the Republican Revolution -- 15. 9/11: Failing the American Public -- 16. How the News Media Have Shaped American History: Focusing on the How
Notes Previous ed.: 1997
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Press -- United States -- Influence.
Press and politics -- United States.
Journalism -- Political aspects -- United States.
LC no. 2007030907
ISBN 9780813343907 (paperback: alk. paper)
0813343909 (paperback: alk. paper)