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"This book is an impressive and valuable work."--David F. Krugler, American Historical Review
"[T]he best general study yet published on the development of radio broadcasting during this crucial period when key institutional and social patterns were established."--Hugh R. Slotten, Technology and Culture
"Fireside Politics is the most complete study so far of the interactions between broadcasting and the U.S. political system during the 'golden age' of radio... likely to become a leading reference in continuing discussions over communication history, technology, and democracy."--Stephen Ponder, H-Pol, H-Net Reviews
"[Craig] has succeeded in producing the best general study yet published on the development of radio broadcasting during this crucial period when key institutions and socail patterns were established."--Hugh R. Slotten, Technology and Culture
"[A]n impressively researched and useful study of how key players within the political and commercial arenas debated, regulated, and utilized -- for their specific interests -- commerical radio as a medium... Craig subtly winds his interpretive, critical thread of the unfulfilled promise of radio as an engine of a more expansive democracy into a larger narrative about the institutional and ideological sway of commerical radio interests."--Brett Gary, Journal of American History
"This thorough and absorbing analysis of the institutional dynamics of network radio braodcasting makes a signal contribution to our understanding of mass political communication before the age of television."--Scott L. Althaus, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics
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" Fireside Politics is the best history of radio between the wars yet written. Craig has done extensive archival work, and he skillfully presents market and economic data. Craig's work will become the leading history, one that every scholar who deals with radio during this period will have to consult and cite."--James L. BaughmanUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, author of The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941
Fireside Politics : Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920-1940 (Reconfiguring American Political History)
Fireside Politics : Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920-1940 (Reconfiguring American Political History),Douglas B. Craig,The Johns Hopkins University Press,0801864399,History,History - General History,History: American,Political History,Political aspects,Radio - History & Criticism,Radio Broadcasting,Radio broadcasting policy,U.S. History - Early 20th Century,United States,United States - 20th Century,United States - 20th Century (1900-1945),History / United States / General
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