Mightier than the sword, how the news media have shaped American history, Rodger Streitmatter
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Mightier than the sword, how the news media have shaped American history, Rodger Streitmatter
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
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Mightier than the sword
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bibliography
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Rodger Streitmatter
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how the news media have shaped American history
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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 reform journalism -- Defying the Ku Klux Klan -- Father Coughlin: Fomenting 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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