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Becoming the Second City: Chicago´s Mass News Media, 1833-1898
Richard Junger
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Description for Becoming the Second City: Chicago´s Mass News Media, 1833-1898
Paperback. A colorful history of Chicago journalism in the nineteenth century Num Pages: 232 pages, 10 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; HBT; KNTJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
Becoming the Second City examines the development of Chicago's press and analyzes coverage of key events in its history to call attention to the media's impact in shaping the city's cultural and historical landscape. In concise, extensively documented prose, Richard Junger illustrates how nineteenth century newspapers acted as accelerants that boosted Chicago's growth in its early history by continually making and remaking the city's image for the public. Junger argues that the press was directly involved in Chicago's race to become the nation's most populous city, a feat it briefly accomplished during the mid-1890s before the incorporation of Greater New ... Read more
Becoming the Second City examines the development of Chicago's press and analyzes coverage of key events in its history to call attention to the media's impact in shaping the city's cultural and historical landscape. In concise, extensively documented prose, Richard Junger illustrates how nineteenth century newspapers acted as accelerants that boosted Chicago's growth in its early history by continually making and remaking the city's image for the public. Junger argues that the press was directly involved in Chicago's race to become the nation's most populous city, a feat it briefly accomplished during the mid-1890s before the incorporation of Greater New ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252077852
SKU
V9780252077852
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About Richard Junger
A former news reporter, Richard Junger is an associate professor of communication and English at Western Michigan University and the author of The Journalist as Reformer: Henry Demarest Lloyd and Wealth Against Commonwealth.
Reviews for Becoming the Second City: Chicago´s Mass News Media, 1833-1898
"Splendid."
American Journalism "Recommended."
Choice "Valuable and necessary, the book shows the degree to which mass media assisted in the formation of Chicago history and helped carve its identity as the Second City."
Journal of Illinois History "A detailed, energetic overview of newspaper coverage and interest in Chicago in the 1800s. Junger's Becoming the Second City will be appreciated by a wide audience ... Read more
American Journalism "Recommended."
Choice "Valuable and necessary, the book shows the degree to which mass media assisted in the formation of Chicago history and helped carve its identity as the Second City."
Journal of Illinois History "A detailed, energetic overview of newspaper coverage and interest in Chicago in the 1800s. Junger's Becoming the Second City will be appreciated by a wide audience ... Read more