Bylines in Despair: Herbert Hoover, the Great Depression, and the U.S. News Media [Hardcover]

Louis W. Liebovich (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 30, 1994 | ISBN-10: 0275948439 | ISBN-13: 978-0275948436

Through a long public life and short presidency, Herbert Hoover carefully cultivated reporters and media owners as he rose from a relief administrator to president of the United States. During his service to government, he held the conviction that journalists were to be manipulated and mistrusted. When the nation fell into economic disaster, Hoover's misconceptions about the press and press relations exacerbated a national calamity. This book traces the entire history of Hoover's relationship with magazines, newspapers, newsreel organizations, and radio, and demonstrates how an attitude toward the U.S. press can help or hinder a public figure throughout his career. The book draws upon diaries of Hoover aides, oral histories from journalists and other media figures, newspaper and magazine clippings, radio broadcasts, newsreels, public documents, archival manuscripts, and a plethora of published secondary books and articles. This may be the most complete and best-documented study of a single president and the media.

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Book Description

This book is a study of Herbert Hoover and his relationship with the media.

About the Author

LOUIS W. LIEBOVICH, an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Illinois, was a reporter with three newspapers in the Midwest in the 1970s, the last being the Milwaukee Sentinel.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Praeger (July 30, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0275948439
• ISBN-13: 978-0275948436
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,207,956 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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