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Title:

The enduring book : print culture in postwar America / edited by David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson.

Publisher:

Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xvi, 618 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Book industries and trade--United States--History--20th century.
Book industries and trade--United States--History--21st century.
Periodicals--History--United States--History--20th century.
Periodicals--History--United States--History--21st century.

Other Authors:

Nord, David Paul.
Rubin, Joan Shelley, 1947-
Schudson, Michael.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [519]-597) and index.

Contents:

Reading the data on books, newspapers, and magazines : a statistical appendix / Laura J. Miller and David Paul Nord. The organization of the book publishing industry / Beth Luey -- Book production technology since 1945 / Patrick Henry -- Markets and audiences / Linda M. Scott -- Selling the product / Laura J. Miller -- The right niche : consumer magazines and advertisers / David Abrahamson and Carol Polsgrove -- Wounded but not slain : the orderly retreat of the American newspaper / James L. Baughman -- Government censorship since 1945 / Donald A. Downs -- American copyright law since 1945 / Marshall Leaffer -- U.S. government publishing in the postwar era / David Paul Nord and John V. Richardson Jr. -- Building on the 1940s. Section I : A D-Day for American books in Europe : Overseas Editions, Inc., 1944-1945 / John B. Hench ; Section II : the American Book Publishers Council / Don Lacy and Robert W. Frase -- Editorial vision and the role of the independent publisher / Dan Simon and Tom McCarthy -- Literary culture, criticism, and bibliography. Section I : cultures of letters, cultures of criticism / David D. Hall ; Section II : the critical climate / Harvey Teres ; Section III : bibliography and the meaning of "text" / David D. Hall -- Magazines and the making of authors / Carol Polsgove -- The oppositional press / James P. Dunky -- The black press and radical print culture / Jane Rhodes -- Where the customer is king : the textbook in American culture / Jonathan Zimmerman -- Libraries, books, and the information age / Kenneth Cmiel -- Science books since 1945 / Bruce V. Lewenstein -- U.S. academic publishing in the digital age / John B. Thompson -- The perseverance of print-bound saints : Protestant book publishing / Paul C. Gutjahr -- Bilingual nation : Spanish-language books in the United States since the 1960s / Ilan Stavans -- The enduring reader / Joan Shelley Rubin -- Reading the language of the heart : the "big book" of Alcoholics Anonymous / Trysh Travis -- Books and the media : the Silent spring debate / Priscilla Coit Murphy -- The Chat-An-Hour Social and Cultural Club : African American women readers / Elizabeth Long -- Book collecting and the book as object / Robert DeMaria Jr. -- Valuing reading, writing, and books in a post-typographic world / David Reinking -- Reading the data on books, newspapers, and magazines : a statistical appendix / Laura J. Miller and David Paul Nord.

Series:

A history of the book in America ; v. 5

ISBN:

0807832855 (acid-free paper)
9780807832851 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)261174626

LCCN:

2009517522

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)