Twentieth-century journalists : America's opinionmakers / S.L. Harrison.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harrison, S. L. (Stanley L.), 1930-
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2002], ©2002.
Subjects:
Journalists > United States > Biography.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Editors > United States > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:x, 292 pages ; 23 cm
Variant Title:
Twentieth century journalists.
20th century journalists.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Eugene Field : bridge to the twentieth century
  • L. Frank Baum : creator of an American metaphor
  • Ida M. Tarbell : the greatest muckraker
  • Howard Garis : columnist as storyteller
  • Edward R. Bok : editor for women
  • Franklin P. Adams : literate columnist
  • Don Marquis : that damned cockroach
  • George S. Schuyler : black press iconoclast
  • Ring Lardner : sportswriting as literature
  • Edmund Duffy : tiger on a rampage
  • Ernest Hemingway : mythic journalist
  • Heywood Broun : columnist as crusader
  • Dorothy Thompson : journalism's most influential woman
  • Henry R. Luce : Time, Life and the American century
  • Margaret Bourke-White : photojournalist : editorials in pictures
  • Walter Winchell : reporting gossip, and rumor
  • Robert Benchley : press criticism with humor
  • John Gunther : journalism becomes history
  • H.L. Mencken : influence on a whole generation
  • Walter Lippmann : the last titan
  • Edward R. Murrow : broadcast journalist nonpareil.