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  • Fireside Politics

    Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920–1940

    Series series Reconfiguring American Political History
    An "impressively researched and useful study" of the golden age of radio and its role in American democracy ( Journal of American History).In Fireside Politics, Douglas B. Craig provides the first detailed and complete examination of radio's changing role in American political culture between 1920 and 1940—the medium's golden age, when it commanded huge national audiences without competition from ... Leer más

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  • Fireside Politics

    Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920-1940

    Series series Reconfiguring American Political History
    In Fireside Politics, Douglas B. Craig provides the first detailed and complete examination of radio's changing role in American political culture between 1920 and 1940—the medium's golden age, when it commanded huge national audiences without competition from television. Craig follows the evolution of radio into a commercialized, networked, and regulated industry, and ultimately into an essential ... Leer más

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  • Progressives at War

    William G. McAdoo and Newton D. Baker, 1863–1941

    Craig's study of McAdoo and Baker illuminates the aspirations and struggles of two prominent southern Democrats.In this dual biography, Douglas B. Craig examines the careers of two prominent American public figures, Newton Diehl Baker and William Gibbs McAdoo, whose lives spanned the era between the Civil War and World War II.Both Baker and McAdoo migrated from the South to northern industrial ... Leer más

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  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
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  • The Sack of Detroit

    General Motors and the End of American Enterprise

    de Kenneth Whyte ...
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  • Dollarocracy

    How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America

    Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic ... Leer más

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  • Gaming the Vote

    Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It)

    Our Electoral System is Fundamentally Flawed, But There's a Simple and Fair SolutionAt least five U.S. presidential elections have been won by the second most popular candidate. The reason was a "spoiler"—a minor candidate who takes enough votes away from the most popular candidate to tip the election to someone else. The spoiler effect is more than a glitch. It is a consequence of one of the most ... Leer más

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  • The Death and Life of American Journalism

    The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again

    Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone.Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is not just threatened. It is in meltdown.In The Death and Life of American Journalism, ... Leer más

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    When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news "alarmist." Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America's daily newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, book publishers, and movie companies has dwindled from ... Leer más

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