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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454021403321

Autore

Griffith Sally Foreman

Titolo

Home town news [[electronic resource] ] : William Allen White and the Emporia gazette / / Sally Foreman Griffith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989

ISBN

1-280-52352-2

0-19-802226-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Disciplina

818.5209

818.5209B

818/.5209 B

Soggetti

Journalists - United States

Electronic books.

Emporia (Kan.) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibiography: p. [243]-282.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. The Education of a ""Somebody""; 2. The New Editor; 3. A Practical Printer; 4. The Making of a Progressive; 5. Booster Progressivism; 6. Spokesman for Community; 7. Community Journalism; 8. Booster Nationalism; 9. Mass Media Come to the Small Town; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

This biography of William Allen White, one of the best known newspaper editors of early 20th century America, is concerned not only with White's career, but also with small-town values and achievements in turn-of-the-century America, when the nation was changing dramatically.