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Evaluates the American newspaper industry's transformation from political party organ to independent new business.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword Preface Acknowledgments A Changing Nation and a Changing Press, 1865-1872 Partisanship Under Attack, 1865-1872 Rural and Regional Journalism, 1865-1882 The Growth of an Independent Press, 1873-1882 A New Journalism Forms in the Midwest, 1873-1882 Western Journalism Invades New York, 1883-1885 The Commercial Press and New Technologies, 1886-1895 Newsmongers, 1883-1895 The Yellow Press, 1896-1900 Reflections on the Gilded Age Press Bibliographical Essay Sources Index

About the Author

TED CURTIS SMYTHE is Professor of Communications Emeritus at California State University, Fullerton. He is co-editor of Readings in Mass Communication and numerous scholarly articles in journalism history.

Reviews

?Though retaining some of its politically partisan heritage, the American press underwent a dramatic transformation in the post-Civil War years. Smythe presents a brief, sweeping survey of American journalism in the so-called Gilded Age. Each chapter examines the press in a specific time period and evaluates the changes that were taking place....Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.?-Choice

"Though retaining some of its politically partisan heritage, the American press underwent a dramatic transformation in the post-Civil War years. Smythe presents a brief, sweeping survey of American journalism in the so-called Gilded Age. Each chapter examines the press in a specific time period and evaluates the changes that were taking place....Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."-Choice