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Author:

Lester, Paul Martin.

Title:

On floods and photo ops : how Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush exploited catastrophes / Paul Martin Lester.

Publisher:

University Press of Mississippi,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xviii, 260 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Bush, George W.--(George Walker),--1946---In mass media--Case studies.
Hoover, Herbert,--1874-1964--In mass media--Case studies.
Disasters--Political aspects--United States--Case studies.
Photojournalism--Political aspects--United States--Case studies.
Photographs--History.--United States--History.
Manipulative behavior--Political aspects--United States--Case studies.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Floods--Mississippi River--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Discoveries : from banality comes understanding -- Analysis : ways of seeing and studying images -- Publicity : the photo op as a political tool -- Floods : when water defeats land -- Lives : Herbert Clark Hoover and George Walker Bush -- Natchez : analysis of the Hoover photograph -- Delisle : analysis of the Bush photograph -- Connections : ordinary images teach complex lessons.

ISBN:

1604732865 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781604732863 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)320196175

LCCN:

2009021666

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)