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The Powers That Be
David Halberstam
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Description for The Powers That Be
Paperback. Gives an account of power at work in America. Num Pages: 792 pages. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1106.
Crackling with the personalities, conflicts, and ambitions that transformed the media from something that followed the news to something that formed it, The Powers That Be is David Halberstam's forceful account of the rise of modern media as an instrument of political power, published here with a new introduction by the author.
Beginning with FDR's masterful use of radio to establish the sense of a personal, benevolently paternal relationship with the American people and culminating in the discovery and coverage of the Watergate break-in, Halberstam tracks the firm establishment of the media as a potent means of ... Read more
Crackling with the personalities, conflicts, and ambitions that transformed the media from something that followed the news to something that formed it, The Powers That Be is David Halberstam's forceful account of the rise of modern media as an instrument of political power, published here with a new introduction by the author.
Beginning with FDR's masterful use of radio to establish the sense of a personal, benevolently paternal relationship with the American people and culminating in the discovery and coverage of the Watergate break-in, Halberstam tracks the firm establishment of the media as a potent means of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
1105g
Number of Pages
792
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252069413
SKU
V9780252069413
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About David Halberstam
David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist formerly with the New York Times, is the author of The Best and the Brightest, The Fifties, and The Amateurs, among many other books.
Reviews for The Powers That Be
"The book provided manna for political, history, political science and journalism junkies and groupies. It bared the warts
biases, politically partisan maneuverings, egos, dollars-and-cents motivations, personality clashes, society maneuvers, internal political wars, insecurities, chauvinistic behaviors and restricted realities of the news organizations as seen through the people who owned and ran them. Stories galore."
Australasian Journal of American Studies "Halberstam ... Read more
biases, politically partisan maneuverings, egos, dollars-and-cents motivations, personality clashes, society maneuvers, internal political wars, insecurities, chauvinistic behaviors and restricted realities of the news organizations as seen through the people who owned and ran them. Stories galore."
Australasian Journal of American Studies "Halberstam ... Read more