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Author:
Guarneri, Julia, author.
Title:
Newsprint metropolis : city papers and the making of modern Americans / Julia Guarneri.
Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
330 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
American newspapers--History--19th century.
American newspapers--History--20th century.
American newspapers--Social aspects.
News audiences--United States.
City dwellers--United States.
Cities and towns--United States--History.
Urbanization--United States--History--19th century.
Urbanization--United States--History--20th century.
American newspapers.
American newspapers--Social aspects.
Cities and towns.
City dwellers.
News audiences.
Urbanization.
United States.
1800-1999
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Epilogue. The world that newspapers made; A new newspaper model; "More news, more advertisements, more paper, more print", Readers become customers, Newspapers remake their cities, The objectivity question -- Making metropolitans, Advising women, Defining the working, middle, and upper class; Teaching technology;Toward a mass audience; Shaping modern men and women -- Building print community; A concerned public; Inside the city's many spheres; Hardened hearts and "human interest"; Middle-class cosmopolitans; An urban brand -- Connecting city, suburb, and region; Building the suburbs, selling the dream; Writing for suburban subscribers; Reading suburban newspapers; Newspapers define the region -- Nationalizing the news; Finding Milwaukee's place; Shared and syndicated news; Newspapers nationalize ; Chains and big-budget features; Striking a balance -- Epilogue.
Series:
Historical studies of urban America
ISBN:
022634133X
9780226341330
OCLC:
(OCoLC)967774988
LCCN:
2016058657
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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