This brief listing contains some of the principal writings that may be of interest to readers of this book, arranged by chapter.
CHAPTER 1: SOWING THE SEEDS OF REVOLUTION
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967.
Conway, Moncure D. The Writings of Thomas Paine. New York: AMS, 1967.
Davidson, Philip. Propaganda and the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941.
Foner, Eric. Tom Paine and Revolutionary America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Miller, John C. Sam Adams: Pioneer in Propaganda. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1936.
CHAPTER 2: TURNING AMERICA AGAINST THE SINS OF SLAVERY
Dillon, Merton L., Elijah P. Lovejoy, Abolitionist Editor. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961.
Garrison, W. P., and F. J. Garrison. William Lloyd Garrison: The Story of His Life as Told by His Children, 4 vols. New York, 1885–1889.
Merrill, Walter M. Against Wind and Tide: A Biography of Wm. Lloyd Garrison. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963.
Tripp, Bernell E. Origins of the Black Press: New York, 1827–1847. Northport, AL: Vision, 1992.
CHAPTER 3: SLOWING THE MOMENTUM FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Harper, Ida Husted. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony. Indianapolis, IN: Hollenbeck, 1898.
List, Karen K. “The Post-Revolutionary Woman Idealized: Philadelphia Media’s ‘Republican Mother.’” Journalism Quarterly 66 (Spring 1989): 65–75.
Solomon, Martha M., ed. A Voice of Their Own: The Woman Suffrage Press, 1840–1910. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds. History of Woman Suffrage. New York: Fowler & Wells, 1881.
CHAPTER 4: ATTACKING MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION
Keller, Morton. The Art and Politics of Thomas Nast. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Paine, Albert B. Thomas Nast: His Period and His Pictures. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1967.
CHAPTER 5: PUSHING AMERICA TOWARD AN INTERNATIONAL WAR
Milton, Joyce. The Yellow Kids: Foreign Correspondents in the Heyday of Yellow Journalism. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
Swanberg, W. A. Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961.
Wisan, Joseph E. The Cuban Crisis as Reflected in the New York Press (1895–1898). New York: Columbia University Press, 1934.
CHAPTER 6: ACHIEVING REFORM BY MUCKRAKING
Filler, Louis. Crusaders for American Liberalism. Yellow Springs, OH: Antioch, 1939.
McGlashan, Zena Beth. “Club ‘Ladies’ and Working ‘Girls’: Rheta Childe Dorr and the New York Evening Post.” Journalism History 8 (1981): 7–13.
Weinberg, Arthur, and Lila Weinberg. The Muckrakers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
CHAPTER 7: DEFYING THE KU KLUX KLAN
Bent, Silas. Newspaper Crusaders: A Neglected Story. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries, 1939.
Chalmers, David M. Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987.
Hohenberg, John, ed. The Pulitzer Prize Story. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959.
Jackson, Kenneth T. The Ku Klux Klan in the City: 1915–1930. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.
CHAPTER 8: SPREADING ANTI-SEMITISM VIA THE RADIO
Brinkley, Alan. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression. New York: Knopf, 1982.
Marcus, Sheldon. Father Coughlin: The Tumultuous Life of the Priest of the Little Flower. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.
Strong, Donald S. Organized Anti-Semitism in America: The Rise of Group Prejudice During the Decade 1930–40. Washington, DC: American Council on Public Affairs, 1941.
CHAPTER 9: USING “ROSIE THE RIVETER” TO PROPEL WOMEN INTO THE WORKFORCE
Chafe, William H. The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic, and Political Roles, 1920–1970. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.
Honey, Maureen. Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda During World War II. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984.
Rupp, Leila J. Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, 1939–1945. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Weatherford, Doris. American Women and World War II. New York: Facts on File, 1990.
CHAPTER 10: STANDING TALL AGAINST JOSEPH MCCARTHY
Barnouw, Erik. The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States from 1953. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Bayley, Edwin R. Joe McCarthy and the Press. New York: Pantheon, 1981.
Leab, Daniel J. “‘See It Now’: A Legend Reassessed.” In American History/American Television: Interpreting the Video Past, edited by John E. O’Connor, 1–32. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1983.
Rosteck, Thomas. See It Now Confronts McCarthyism. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994.
Straight, Michael. Trial by Television. Boston: Beacon, 1954.
CHAPTER 11: PUSHING CIVIL RIGHTS ONTO THE NATIONAL AGENDA
Fisher, Paul L., and Ralph L. Lowenstein, eds. Race and the News Media. New York: Praeger, 1967.
MacNeil, Robert. The People Machine: The Influence of Television on American Politics. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
Muse, Benjamin. The American Negro Revolution. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968.
Watson, Mary Ann. The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Wood, William A. Electronic Journalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967.
CHAPTER 12: BRINGING THE VIETNAM WAR INTO THE AMERICAN LIVING ROOM
Braestrup, Peter. Big Story: How the American Press and Television Reported and Interpreted the Crisis of Tet 1968 in Vietnam and Washington. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1977.
Hallin, Daniel C. The “Uncensored War”: The Media and Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Oberdorfer, Don. Tet! Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.
CHAPTER 13: EXPOSING CRIMINAL ACTIVITY IN RICHARD NIXON’S WHITE HOUSE
Genovese, Michael A. The Watergate Crisis. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.
Marshall, Jon. Watergate’s Legacy and the Press: The Investigative Impulse. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2011.
McCartney, James. “The Washington ‘Post’ and Watergate: How Two Davids Slew Goliath.” Columbia Journalism Review (July/August 1973): 8–22.
Olson, Keith W. Watergate: The Presidential Scandal That Shook America. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003.
CHAPTER 14: FAILING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WITH 9/11 COVERAGE
Rich, Frank. The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth. New York: Penguin, 2006.
Tugend, Alina. “Explaining the Rage.” American Journalism Review (December 2001): 24–27.
Zakaria, Fareed. “The Politics of Rage: Why Do They Hate Us?” Newsweek, 15 October 2001.
CHAPTER 15: ELECTING AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT
Goldberg, Bernard. A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2009.
Heileman, John, and Mark Halperin. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.
Kenski, Kate, Bruce W. Hardy, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Schoen, Douglas E. The Political Fix: Changing the Game of American Democracy, from the Grass Roots to the White House. New York: Henry Holt, 2010.
CHAPTER 16: SUPPORTING GAY AND LESBIAN RIGHTS
Barnhurst, Kevin G., ed. Media Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.
Henderson, Lisa. Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
Moscowitz, Leigh. The Battle Over Marriage: Gay Rights Activism Through the Media. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013.
Streitmatter, Rodger. From “Perverts” to “Fab Five”: The Media’s Changing Depiction of Gay Men and Lesbians. New York: Routledge, 2009.