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Newsprint Metropolis City Papers Making of Modern Americans PB Julia Guarneri
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- ISBN
- 9780226758329
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022675832X
ISBN-13
9780226758329
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27050021793
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Publication Name
Newsprint Metropolis : City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans
Language
English
Subject
United States / 20th Century, Media Studies, Journalism
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Series
Historical Studies of Urban America Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Length
0 in
Item Width
0 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Gracefully written, with many appealing historical photos and illustrations, Newsprint Metropolis presents case studies of four different cities: New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Chicago....The book's detailed and lively examination of social history commands interest from both scholars and general readers...., Not in several decades has a scholar offered as comprehensive and geographically balanced an account of the American daily newspaper in its commercial and aesthetic heyday. In clear, crisp, and lively prose, at once authoritative and evocative, Newsprint Metropolis neither presumes nor demands prior familiarity with the period or the historical literature. Instead it rewards curiosity about a time when cheap daily papers anchored, expanded, and reshaped their massive readership's sense of community and place., An ambitious, engaging, and persuasive history of this most quintessentially metropolitan institution. . . . Guarneri makes a compelling argument that urban newspapers were a creative force that helped forge a modern, metropolitan social order in the United States. Her emphasis on readers is especially welcome. . . . She makes creative use of circulation data, commentary, letters, and surveys. . . . Guarneri shrewdly infers reading experiences from the way newspapers were organized and written., As social history, Newsprint Metropolis offers a deeply sourced and engaging account of the complicated relationship between newspapers and cities, and the ways in which the two intersected. . .One of the strengths of Newsprint Metropolis is Guarneri's holistic approach with primary sources. She dives beyond front pages and intro newspaper folds, examining Sunday sections, comics, advice columns, theater sections, and business directories. And while large metropolitan dailies are covered, she does not forget the role weekly, African-American, and foreign language newspapers played in the lives of city dwellers., Newsprint Metropolis is a splendid study of big city daily and Sunday newspapers at the dawn of the twentieth century. Guarneri explores the marvelously diverse universe of newspaper content and influence, from news and advertising, to comics and advice columns, to politics and popular culture. And she persuasively supports a bold claim: that newspapers were not just chroniclers but were creators of the modern American city., Guarneri's decision to examine mass-readership newspapers in four major cities allows her not only to look at the epicenter of newspaper publishing at the turn of the century--New York--but also to examine the similarities and differences in newspaper publishing in other major metropolitan markets. The result is detailed and fascinating social history, as well as a set of interlinked arguments regarding the 'metropolitan' and its relationship to the creation of regional and national cultures., In her wonderful new book, Julia Guarneri returns us to the salad days of the mass daily at the turn of the twentieth century. . . Guarneri is a skilled and loving reader of old newspapers. Newsprint Metropolis provides an excellent depiction of a now-distant era of booming cities and booming newspapers, and an insightful account of the modern life-styles they brought into being., Impressive. . .Julia Guarneri makes a convincing case that newspapers played an essential role in American life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . .This book will likely become the definitive study of turn-of-the-century newspapers. . .It will also appeal to those seeking a prehistory to the news media of the twenty-first century., Gracefully written, with many appealing historical photos and illustrations, Newsprint Metropolis presents case studies of four different cities: New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Chicago. . . .The book's detailed and lively examination of social history commands interest from both scholars and general readers., Beautifully written, brightly illustrated, and prodigiously researched, Guarneri's Newsprint Metropolis will, the day it is published, become the 'go-to' book on the history of twentieth century American newspapers. We forget, at our peril, how important the daily newspaper was in spreading wide and far the gospel of business, the joys of consumerism, the tensions between the local and the national, and the changing gender roles that defined daily life in the decades surrounding the turn of the century. Guarneri's new book, like all good history, brings our present into focus by illuminating some essential, but nearly forgotten aspects of our past.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
071/.309034
Table Of Content
Introduction One: A New Newspaper Model Two: Making Metropolitans Three: Building Print Community Four: Connecting City, Suburb, and Region Five: Nationalizing the News Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix: Sources Notes
Synopsis
At the turn of the twentieth century, ambitious publishers like Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and Robert McCormick produced the most spectacular newspapers Americans had ever read. Alongside current events and classified ads, publishers began running comic strips, sports sections, women's pages, and Sunday magazines. Newspapers' lavish illustrations, colorful dialogue, and sensational stories seemed to reproduce city life on the page. Yet as Julia Guarneri reveals, newspapers did not simply report on cities; they also helped to build them. Metropolitan sections and civic campaigns crafted cohesive identities for sprawling metropolises. Real estate sections boosted the suburbs, expanding metropolitan areas while maintaining cities' roles as economic and information hubs. Advice columns and advertisements helped assimilate migrants and immigrants to a class-conscious, consumerist, and cosmopolitan urban culture. Newsprint Metropolis offers a tour of American newspapers in their most creative and vital decades. It traces newspapers' evolution into highly commercial, mass-produced media, and assesses what was gained and lost as national syndicates began providing more of Americans' news. Case studies of Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and Milwaukee illuminate the intertwined histories of newspapers and the cities they served. In an era when the American press is under attack, Newsprint Metropolis reminds us how papers once hosted public conversations and nurtured collective identities in cities across America.
LC Classification Number
PN4864.G83 2020
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