Everything Was Better in America : Print Culture in the Great Depression /
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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2008]
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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."