GEORGE H. DOUGLAS is Professor of English at the University of Illinois. A Jersey native, his father was a long-time writer and editor at the Newark Evening News. As a boy Douglas was an inveterate visitor to the paper's city room and was awed by the roar of the rotary presses. He is the author of eleven books and many dozens of articles, mostly dealing with American literature and social history. Among his books are The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting, H. L. Mencken: Critic of American Life, All Aboard: The Railroad in American Life, Skyscraper Odyssey, and The Smart Magazines.

• Introduction Penny Papers: The Printed Word for Democratic Man The Quest for a Real Newspaper Giants of a New Age: James Gordon Bennett and Horace Greeley Newspapers Move West--Ferment in the South The Civil War--The Indispensability of News Dana and the New York Sun--The News Story as Art Newspapers in the Gilded Age Dangerous Crossroads: Pulitzer and Hearst The Rise of the New York Times Of Evenings, and Sundays, and Funnies, and Such Newspaper Chains and Press Associations Fantasy and Reality: The Newspaper Reporter When the Women Marched in The Newspaper Saga: From Our Town to Olympus The Foreign Language Press Tabloids A Bright and Shining Moment Bibliographic Essay Index

GEORGE H. DOUGLAS is Professor of English at the University of Illinois. A Jersey native, his father was a long-time writer and editor at the Newark Evening News. As a boy Douglas was an inveterate visitor to the paper's city room and was awed by the roar of the rotary presses. He is the author of eleven books and many dozens of articles, mostly dealing with American literature and social history. Among his books are The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting, H. L. Mencken: Critic of American Life, All Aboard: The Railroad in American Life, Skyscraper Odyssey, and The Smart Magazines.

• Introduction Penny Papers: The Printed Word for Democratic Man The Quest for a Real Newspaper Giants of a New Age: James Gordon Bennett and Horace Greeley Newspapers Move West--Ferment in the South The Civil War--The Indispensability of News Dana and the New York Sun--The News Story as Art Newspapers in the Gilded Age Dangerous Crossroads: Pulitzer and Hearst The Rise of the New York Times Of Evenings, and Sundays, and Funnies, and Such Newspaper Chains and Press Associations Fantasy and Reality: The Newspaper Reporter When the Women Marched in The Newspaper Saga: From Our Town to Olympus The Foreign Language Press Tabloids A Bright and Shining Moment Bibliographic Essay Index

GEORGE H. DOUGLAS is Professor of English at the University of Illinois. A Jersey native, his father was a long-time writer and editor at the Newark Evening News. As a boy Douglas was an inveterate visitor to the paper's city room and was awed by the roar of the rotary presses. He is the author of eleven books and many dozens of articles, mostly dealing with American literature and social history. Among his books are The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting, H. L. Mencken: Critic of American Life, All Aboard: The Railroad in American Life, Skyscraper Odyssey, and The Smart Magazines.

• Introduction Penny Papers: The Printed Word for Democratic Man The Quest for a Real Newspaper Giants of a New Age: James Gordon Bennett and Horace Greeley Newspapers Move West--Ferment in the South The Civil War--The Indispensability of News Dana and the New York Sun--The News Story as Art Newspapers in the Gilded Age Dangerous Crossroads: Pulitzer and Hearst The Rise of the New York Times Of Evenings, and Sundays, and Funnies, and Such Newspaper Chains and Press Associations Fantasy and Reality: The Newspaper Reporter When the Women Marched in The Newspaper Saga: From Our Town to Olympus The Foreign Language Press Tabloids A Bright and Shining Moment Bibliographic Essay Index