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South Reports the Civil War
J. Cutlery Andrews
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Description for South Reports the Civil War
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 640 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 885.
For the newspaper profession the problems confronted in reporting the Civil War were as catalytic as the war itself was for American society. Many of the problems encountered in reporting later wars were present in the Civil War, but they were new problems then: communications, transportation, Federal confiscation of printing presses, censorship, military personalities, and, after mid-1863, how to tell a proud people that it was losing the war. Professor Andrews, author of The North Reports the Civil War (1955), now turns his attention to the South. He shows that Southern war reporting at its best was comparable in quality ... Read more
For the newspaper profession the problems confronted in reporting the Civil War were as catalytic as the war itself was for American society. Many of the problems encountered in reporting later wars were present in the Civil War, but they were new problems then: communications, transportation, Federal confiscation of printing presses, censorship, military personalities, and, after mid-1863, how to tell a proud people that it was losing the war. Professor Andrews, author of The North Reports the Civil War (1955), now turns his attention to the South. He shows that Southern war reporting at its best was comparable in quality ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691621166
SKU
V9780691621166
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99-15
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