| Description |
1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Intro: "Every Hate-Monger, Radio Preacher and Backwoods Evangelist" -- Conservative Radio, the Polish Ham Boycott, and the Creation of a Right-Wing Social Movement -- Seven Days in May or: How the Kennedys Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Radio Right -- Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They Aren't After You: Putting the Reuther Memorandum to Work -- "The Red Lion Roars Again": The Fairness Doctrine, the Democratic National Committee, and the Election of 1964 -- Outsourcing Censorship: How the National Council of Churches Silenced Fundamentalist Broadcasters -- The Radio Right in Decline -- Conclusion: From Radio Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump's Tweets |
| Summary |
By the early 1960s, most Americans could tune to a radio station that aired conservative programming from dawn to dusk. People listened to these shows in remarkable numbers; for example Carl McIntire had a weekly audience of 20 million, or one in nine American households. As this Radio Right phenomenon grew, President John F. Kennedy responded with the most successful government censorship campaign of the last half century. Taking the advice of union leader Walter Reuther, the Kennedy administration used the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Communications Commission to pressure stations into dropping conservative programs. This book reveals the growing power of the Radio Right through the eyes of its opponents using confidential reports, internal correspondence, and Oval Office tape recordings |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 24, 2020) |
| Subject |
Radio in politics -- United States.
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Radio in religion -- United States
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Radio broadcasting -- Political aspects -- United States
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Conservatism -- United States
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Conservatism
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Radio broadcasting -- Political aspects
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Radio in politics
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Radio in religion
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019033847 |
| ISBN |
9780190073251 (ebook) |
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019007325X (ebook) |
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