News for all : Americaʼs coming-of-age with the press / Thomas C. Leonard.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.Description: xv, 288 p. : ill ; 25 cmISBN:- 0195064542 (acid-free paper)
- PN4855 .L46 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-282) and index.
WAR, NEWBERY,
Part 1 : the creation of an audience -- How Americans learned to read the news -- Taverns as news room -- Mail and other people's business -- News at the hearth -- Imagined communities -- The old-fashioned circulation drive -- Deadbeat readers -- Bonded readers -- Bounty readers -- Part 2 : negotiations over media in two centuries -- The menace of media -- Antislavery and incendiary publications -- Subversive scrapbooks -- Civil rights and the world watching -- Alabama deconstructs -- Discriminating readers -- News at Walden pond -- News on canvas -- News on the walls -- Everyone an editor --The gifts of news -- News to save -- What readers read -- Hogs and humbled editors -- Part 3 : the durable dream of a reading public -- Unwanted readers -- A democracy of circulation -- Newsies and the allure of news -- Dollars and sense of circulation -- "We're pretty particular about who subscribes" -- Vanishing citizens -- Newspapers down, magazines up -- Monopoly and enterprises -- Fables and franchises -- Readers at retail -- "The people! Try and lick that" -- Humphrey Bogart's hypothesis -- The blocked professional path -- Surrogate professionals and their faux public -- Readers at the gates.