Product Description: AMERICAN MEDIA HISTORY is a lively text that focuses on the development and impact of the American media. Each chapter of American Media History centers on the development of a particular medium and is written as a story. At the same time, it incorporates brief biographies of important media figures and other primary materials to keep students engrossed with the content...read more

Product Description: With the centennial of this fascinating conflict arriving in 1998, we expect Tebbel's new book to become the pre- imminent work on the subject. The last major effort to tell the story was in the 1950's. Because of its style, the book will appeal to both knowledgeable historians and to those who simply wish to learn from and enjoy a fine historical novel...read more

Traces the history of magazines in America, from their first appearance in 1741 to the present

Based on the author's four-volume 'History of Book Publishing in the United States,' this book offers comprehensive portraits of the founders of the great publishing houses and traces the evolution of the industry

Chronicles of the tense, ambivalent relationship between the Oval Office and the news media and offers a debate on how the media may actually place their own freedom in jeopardy

Discusses the history of newspapers, introduces contemporary techniques of reporting news, analyzes journalism's present crisis, and outlines suggested solutions