American Journalism, Volume 9, Issue 1-2 (1992)

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American Journalism, Volume 9, Issue 1-2 (1992)

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The Economics of the New Journausm
The Case of Esquire
S. M. W. Bass & Joseph Rebello
Pages: 4-6
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Articles

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Stephen Crane’s New York City Journalism and the Oft-Told Tale
On the Literary Status of Journalism
Michael Robertson
Pages: 7-22
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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“Trifling with Edged Tools”
Henry Adams’s Letters to the New York Times, 1861-62
John C. Bromley
Pages: 23-34
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Article
Tough Talk and Bad News
Satire and the New York Herald, 1835–1860
Gary L. Whitby
Pages: 35-52
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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James Agee’s Documentary Expression: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men as Journalism
Crossings at the Fact-Fiction Border
Edna Boone Johnson & Mary Helen Brown
Pages: 53-64
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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“In the Wake of the News”
The Beginnings of a Sports Column, by HEK
Alfred Lawrence Lorenz
Pages: 65-86
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Articles: Historiographical Essay

Article
Re-Viewing Rock Writing
The Origins of Popular Music Criticism
Steve Jones
Pages: 87-107
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading Since 1880.
By Carl F. Kaestle, Helen Damon-Moore, Lawrence C. Stedman, Katherine Tinsley, and William Vance Trollinger, Jr., Yale University Press, 1991 1 352 pp, $35, Cloth
David Paul Nord
Pages: 108-109
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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If no News, Send Rumors; Anecdotes of American Journausm.
By Stephen Bates., Holt, 1991, 320 pp., $11.95, Paper
Nancy Roberts
Pages: 109-110
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Now the News: The Story of Broadcast Journausm.
By Edward Bliss, Jr., Columbia University Press, 1991, 575 pp., $40, Cloth
Louise Benjamin
Page: 110
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Preserving the Press: How Daily Newspapers Mobilized to Keep their Readers.
By Leo Bogart., Columbia University Press, 1991, 327pp., $40, Cloth
Charles E. Rankin
Pages: 110-112
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Ignatius Donnelly: Portrait of a Politician.
By Martin Ridge., Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1991, 427 pp., $17.50, Paper
Roy E. Blackwood
Page: 112
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Risky Business: Communicating Issues of Science, Risk, and Public Policy.
Edited by Lee Wilkins and Philip Patterson., Greenwood, 1990, 230 pp., $42.95, Cloth
Bruce V. Lewenstein
Page: 113
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
The Man Who was Mark Twain: Images and Ideologies.
By Guy Cardwell., Yale University Press, 1991, 272 pp. $27.50, Cloth
Edward A. Nickerson
Pages: 113-114
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
60 Minutes and the News: A Mythology for Middle America.
By Richard Campbell., University of Illinois Press, 1991, 240 pp., $29.95, Cloth
Jana L. Hyde
Pages: 114-115
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Freedom from Violence: Sectarian Resistance from the Middle Ages to the Great War.
By Peter Brock., University of Toronto Press, 1991, 448 pp., $55, Cloth
Nancy Roberts
Pages: 115-117
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Crossing the Line: From Editor to Activist to Inmate–a Writer’s Journey.
By Samuel H. Day, Jr., Fortkamp, 1990, 280 pp., $19.95, Cloth; $15.95, Paper
Nancy Roberts
Pages: 115-117
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Minutes to Midnight: Nuclear Weapons Protest in America.
By Frances B. McCrea and Gerald E. Markle., Sage, 1989, 240 pp., $27.95, Cloth; $14.95, Paper
Nancy Roberts
Pages: 115-117
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851–1945.
By Daniel R. Headrick., Oxford University Press, 1991, 304 pp., $32.50, Cloth
Sandra Haarsager
Pages: 117-118
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Points of Resistance: Women, Power and Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943–1971.
By Lauren Rabinowitz., University of Illinois Press, 1991, 264pp., $34.95, Cloth; $14.95, Paper
Jonas Bjork
Pages: 118-119
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Make no Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment.
By Anthony Lewis., Random, 1991, 368pp., $25, Cloth
Kyu Ho Youm
Pages: 119-120
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Crime and the American Press.
By Roy Edward Lotz., Praeger, 1991, 192 pp. $39.95, Cloth
Richard Scheidenhelm
Pages: 120-121
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Journalism for the 21st Century: Online Information, Electronic Databases, And the News.
By Tom Koch., Praeger, 1991, 374 pp., $45, Cloth; $17.95, Paper
Jim Foust
Pages: 121-122
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
IDA B. Wells-Barnett: An Exploratory Study of an American Black Woman, 1893–1930.
By Mildred I. Thompson., Carlson, 1990, 328 pp., $65, Cloth
Nora Hall
Pages: 122-123
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Central Ideas in the Development of American Journalism: A Narrative History.
By Marvin Olasky., Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991, 208 pp., $34.50, Cloth
Jean Folkerts
Pages: 123-126
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
A History of British Publishing.
By John Feather., Routledge, 1991, 304 pp., $15.95, Paper
J. O. Baylen (emeritus)
Pages: 126-127
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Symbols, The News Magazines, And Martin Luther King.
By Richard Lentz., Louisiana State University Press, 1990, 384 pp., $29.95, Cloth
Perry J. Ashley
Pages: 127-129
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Shifting Time and Space: The Story of Videotape.
By Eugene Marlow and Eugene Secunda., Praeger, 1991, 192 pp., $39.95, Cloth
Sandra Haarsager
Pages: 129-130
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Letters of Eugenev. Debs.
Edited by J. Robert, Constantine., University of Illinois Press, 1990; Vol. 1, 632 pp.; Vol. 2, 560 pp.; Vol. 3, 642 pp., $120, Cloth
Jon Bekken
Pages: 130-132
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Forerunners of Revolution: Muckrakers and the American Social Conscience.
By Walter M. Brasch., University Press of America, 1990, 208 pp., $38, Cloth; $18.50, Paper
Edd Applegate
Page: 132
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Equal to the Occasion: Women Editors of the Nineteenth-Century West.
By Sherilyn Cox Bennion., University of Nevada Press, 1990, 225 pp., $24.95, Cloth
Barbara Cloud
Pages: 132-134
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Calling Home: Working-Class Women’s Writings: An Anthology.
By Janet Zandy., Rutgers University Press, 1990, 340 pp., $39.95, Cloth; $12.95, Paper
Nancy Roberts
Pages: 134-135
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Words on Fire: The Life and Writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
By Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall., Rutgers University Press, 1987, 320 pp., $38, Cloth; $15, Paper
Nancy Roberts
Pages: 134-135
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Issues in Feminist Film Criticism.
Edited by Patricia Erens., Indiana University Press, 1990, 320 pp., $17.50, Paper
Anna Banks
Pages: 135-136
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
The Voice of America: Propaganda and Democracy, 1941–1945.
By Holly Cowan Shulman., University of Wisconsin Press, 1991, 256 pp, $37.50, Cloth; $12.95, Paper
Maureen J. Nemecek
Pages: 136-137
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
New York By Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches.
By George G. Foster. Edited and with an introduction by Stuart M. Blumin., University of California Press, 1990, 251 pp., $24.95, Cloth;$10.95, Paper
Darwin Payne
Pages: 137-138
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Health in the Headlines: The Stories Behind the Stories.
By Stephen Klaidman., Oxford University Press, 1991, 264 pp., $21.95, Cloth
Ted Stanton
Pages: 138-139
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Liberal Journalism and American Education, 1914–1941.
By James M. Wallace., Rutgers University Press, 1991, 252 pp., $40, Cloth; $15, Paper
Paul Ashdown
Pages: 139-140
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
The Dragon’s Pupils, A China Odyssey.
By Kenneth Starck., Iowa State University Press, 1991, 250 pp., $24.95, Cloth
Gary L. Whitby
Pages: 140-142
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
Bret Harte’s California: Letters to the Springfield Republican and Christian Register, 1866–67.
By Gary Schamhorst., University of New Mexico Press, 1990, 170 pp., $22.50, Cloth
Thomas B. Connery
Pages: 142-143
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
What News? The Market, Politics and the Local Press.
By Bob Franklin and David Murphy., Routledge, 1991, 240 pp., $74.50, Cloth;$19.95, Paper
Schyler Rehart
Pages: 143-144
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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Book Review
War Photography: Realism in the British Press.
By John Taylor., Routledge, 1991, 199 pp., $18.95, Paper
C. Zoe Smith
Page: 144
Published online: 24 Jul 2013
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