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Pen and Sword: American War Correspondents, 1898-1975
Mary S. Mander
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Description for Pen and Sword: American War Correspondents, 1898-1975
hardcover. Linking war correspondence to the history of modern warfare Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBW; KNTJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. .
Addressing the ever-changing, overlapping trajectories of war and journalism, this introduction to the history and culture of modern American war correspondence considers a wealth of original archival material. In powerful analyses of letters, diaries, journals, television news archives, and secondary literature related to the U.S.'s major military conflicts of the twentieth century, Mary S. Mander highlights the intricate relationship of the postmodern nation state to the free press and to the public. Pen and Sword: American War Correspondents, 1898-1975 situates war correspondence within the larger framework of the history of the printing press to make perceptive new points about the nature ... Read more
Addressing the ever-changing, overlapping trajectories of war and journalism, this introduction to the history and culture of modern American war correspondence considers a wealth of original archival material. In powerful analyses of letters, diaries, journals, television news archives, and secondary literature related to the U.S.'s major military conflicts of the twentieth century, Mary S. Mander highlights the intricate relationship of the postmodern nation state to the free press and to the public. Pen and Sword: American War Correspondents, 1898-1975 situates war correspondence within the larger framework of the history of the printing press to make perceptive new points about the nature ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252035562
SKU
V9780252035562
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About Mary S. Mander
Mary S. Mander is a professor emeritus of communications at The Pennsylvania State University and the editor of Framing Friction: Media and Social Conflict.
Reviews for Pen and Sword: American War Correspondents, 1898-1975
"A stimulating inquiry into the place of war correspondents in twentieth-century American life. Part history and part theory, Mary S. Mander's work is provocative. Her effort to recover the voices of journalists and the dance between them and the military and government is extremely important."
Owen V. Johnson, coauthor of Eastern European Journalism: Past, Present, and Future "A thoughtful consideration of ... Read more
Owen V. Johnson, coauthor of Eastern European Journalism: Past, Present, and Future "A thoughtful consideration of ... Read more