Everything Was Better in America : Print Culture in the Great Depression /

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As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, Welky offers this study of how mainstream culture shaped and disseminated a message affirming conservative middle-class values and assuring its readers that holding to these value...

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Main Author: Welky, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Silvana Editoriale
Zeitschrift
Zeitung
Buchmarkt
Publishers and publishing.
American periodicals.
American newspapers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
Periodiques americains > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Journaux americains > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Publishers and publishing > United States > History > 20th century.
American periodicals > History > 20th century.
American newspapers > History > 20th century.
USA.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "A time not to rock the boat"
  • Part One: Newspapers
  • The Press encounters the New Deal
  • Kidnapping America's child
  • Olympic feats of Americanism
  • The Gumps: America's comic-strip family
  • Part Two: Magazines
  • How to slant a magazine
  • Life, the war, and everything
  • Defining womanhood in the Ladies' Home Journal
  • Patriot number one, the man of steel
  • Part Three: Books
  • Mainstreaming the book industry
  • Finding security in best sellers
  • Ellery Queen restores order
  • Gone with the wind, but not forgotten
  • Conclusion: "Everything was better in America."

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