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Mightier than the sword : how the news media have shaped American history / Rodger Streitmatter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997.Description: xii, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0813332117 (pbk.)
  • 9780813332116 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.4/493240973 22
LOC classification:
  • S914 1997
Contents:
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 journalism -- Defying the Ku Klux Klan -- Father Coughlin: formenting 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 -- How the news media have shaped history: focusing on the how.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Agricultura Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso) S914 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000052830

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-275) and index.

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 journalism -- Defying the Ku Klux Klan -- Father Coughlin: formenting 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 -- How the news media have shaped history: focusing on the how.

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