Anthony R. DiMaggio. The Politics of Persuasion: Economic Policy and Media Bias in the Modern Era. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017. 390 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6345-2.
Reviewed by Michelle Martindale (Purdue University) Published on Jhistory (June, 2019) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Randall S. Sumpter. Before Journalism Schools: How Gilded Age Reporters Learned the Rules. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2018. xv + 175 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8262-2159-9.
Reviewed by Eric Walls (East Carolina University) Published on Jhistory (April, 2019) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53635
Fred Carroll. Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century. History of Communication Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. 278 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08303-7.
Reviewed by Jon Bekken (Albright College) Published on Jhistory (April, 2019) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Mary Layton Atkinson. Combative Politics: The Media and Public Perceptions of Lawmaking. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2017. 228 pp. $27.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-44192-4.
Reviewed by Justin Patrick (University of Toronto) Published on Jhistory (April, 2019) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Christopher M. Tinson. Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 346 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-3455-5.
Reviewed by Max Lewontin (Independent Scholar) Published on Jhistory (March, 2019) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53506
Constance Bantman, Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva, eds. The Foreign Political Press in Nineteenth-Century London: Politics from a Distance. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 240 pages. ISBN 978-1-4742-5851-7.
Reviewed by Andrew Tompkins (Drew University) Published on Jhistory (January, 2019) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Judith Ann Giesberg. Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 152 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3127-1.
Reviewed by Eric Walls (East Carolina University) Published on Jhistory (January, 2019) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53387
Sheri Chinen Biesen. Film Censorship: Regulating America's Screen. Short Cuts Series. London: Wallflower Press, 2018. Illustrations. vii + 163 pp. $22.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-18313-0.
Reviewed by Philip Glende (Indiana State University) Published on Jhistory (January, 2019) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Elizabeth Groeneveld. Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015. 250 pp. $36.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-77112-120-0.
Reviewed by Donna Harrington-Lueker (Salve Regina University) Published on Jhistory (December, 2018) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Michael Mann. Wiring the Nation: Telecommunication, Newspaper-Reportage, and Nation-Building in British India 1850–1930. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxii + 298 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-947217-8.
Reviewed by Eugenia M. Palmegiano (St. Peter's University) Published on Jhistory (November, 2018) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Emily Bell, Taylor Owen, Smitha Khorana, Jennifer Henrichsen, eds. Journalism after Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. xvi + 326 pp. $25.00 (papep), ISBN 978-0-231-17613-2.
Reviewed by Andrew Tompkins (Drew University) Published on Jhistory (November, 2018) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Ruth Palmer. Becoming the News: How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. 280 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-18315-4.
Reviewed by Marci Mazzarotto (Georgian Court University) Published on Jhistory (November, 2018) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
William T. Horner, M. Heather Carver. Saturday Night Live and the 1976 Presidential Election: A New Voice Enters Campaign Politics. Jefferson: McFarland, 2017. 208 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-7184-0.
Reviewed by Andrew Kettler (University of Toronto) Published on Jhistory (October, 2018) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Blair Davis. Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2017. Illustrations. 256 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8135-7225-3; $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8135-7226-0.
Reviewed by Caryn E. Neumann (Miami University of Ohio) Published on Jhistory (October, 2018) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Jane M. Gaines. Pink-Slipped: What Happened to the Women in the Silent Film Industries? Women and Film History International Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. Illustrations. 328 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08343-3; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04181-5.
Reviewed by Marisa Stickel (University of Tennessee) Published on Jhistory (October, 2018) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
