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The press in American politics, 1787-2012

This book tells the historical narrative of the press as a defining part of America's elections, political parties, and political life, examining topics such as the expansion of the press into the Western territories and states in the early 19th century, the growing independence of the press after the Civil War, the early history of wireless communication, the emergence of radio and television as powerful media, and the daunting challenges newspapers face in the Internet era
eBook, English, 2014
Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California, 2014
History
1 online resource
9781440832901, 9798216132219, 1440832900
893909891
1. The press and American politics, 1787-1800
2. The nineteenth-century press and American politics
3. Newspapers and twentieth-century American politics
4. Radio and the rise of broadcast politics
5. Television in the early twentieth century
6. Television in the 1930s and in wartime America
7. Television and the transformation of postwar American politics
8. The internet and politics in the digital age
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