Red Blood & Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West - Rilegato

Dary, David

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ISBN 10: 0679446559 ISBN 13: 9780679446552

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

Riassunto

Celebrates the pioneer newspapers responsible for creating the cultural tone and direction of society in the American West

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L'autore:

David Dary is a native of Kansas, where his great-grandfather on one side and his grandfather on the other were engaged in the newspaper business. He lived in Texas and in Washington, D.C., working with CBS News and NBC News, before returning to Kansas to teach journalism at the University of Kansas. He is now head of the School of Journalism at the University of Oklahoma.
Dary is the author of seven previous books on the West, including The Buffalo Book, Cowboy Culture, True Tales of Old-Time Kansas, and Seeking Pleasure in the Old West. He is the recipient of many awards, among them the Cowboy Hall of Fame Wrangler Award, the Western Writers of America's Spur Award, and the Westerners International award for best work of nonfiction.

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t time, the long, exciting, often surprising story of journalism in the Old West--from the freewheeling days of the early 1800s when all the news was an expression of the editor's opinion, to the more balanced reporting of the classic small-town weeklies and busy city newsrooms of the 1920s. Here are the printers who founded the first papers, arriving in town with a shirttail of type and a secondhand press, setting up shop under trees, in tents, in barns or storefronts, moving on when the town failed, or into larger quarters if it flourished. Using many excerpts from the early papers themselves, Dary shows us the amazing ways the early editors stretched the language, often inventing new words to describe unusual events or to lambaste their targets--and how they sometimes had to defend their right of free speech with fists or guns. We see women working in partnership with their husbands or out on their own, and tramp printers who moved from place to place as need for their services rose and fell.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679446559
• ISBN 13: 9780679446552
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 345