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23 produkter
Falling Up
How a Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting
Häftad, 2005
442 kr
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This brash and rollicking autobiography is a potent primer of the rough-and-tumble world of political consulting by one of its founding fathers and preeminent experts. A cross between a patriotic redneck raconteur and a TV-savvy renaissance man, Raymond D. Strother is unafraid to name names and …
Rewiring Politics
Presidential Nominating Conventions in the Media Age
Inbunden, 2007
456 kr
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A century ago, national political parties' nominating conventions for U.S. presidential candidates often resembled wide-open brawls, filled with front-stage conflicts and back-room deals. Today, leagues of advisors precisely plan and carefully script these events even though their outcomes are …
From Pigeons to News Portals
Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New Technology
Av David D. Perlmutter, John Maxwell Hamilton
Häftad, 2007
358 kr
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Ever since the invention of the telegraph, journalists have sought to remove the barriers of time and space. Today, we readily accept that reporters can jet quickly to a distant location and broadcast instantly from a satellite-connected, video-enabled cell phone hanging from their belts. But now …
Negotiating in the Press
American Journalism and Diplomacy, 1918-1919
Inbunden, 2010
637 kr
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Negotiating in the Press offers a new interpretation of an otherwise dark moment in American journalism. Rather than emphasise the familiar story of lost journalistic freedom during World War I, Joseph R. Hayden describes the press's newfound power in the war's aftermath - that seminal moment when …
Political Polling in the Digital Age
The Challenge of Measuring and Understanding Public Opinion
Av Kirby Goidel
Häftad, 2011
273 kr
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The 2008 presidential election provided a ""perfect storm"" for pollsters. A significant portion of the population had exchanged their landlines for cellphones, which made them harder to survey. Additionally, a potential Bradley effect - in which white voters misrepresent their intentions of voting …
Political Communication
The Manship School Guide
Av Robert Mann, David D. Perlmutter
Häftad, 2011
481 kr
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A new era of political power has arrived, one in which the social media forces of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter indisputably play a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition of Political Communication: The Manship School Guide, edited by Robert Mann and David D. …
Promoting the War Effort
Robert Horton and Federal Propaganda, 1938-1946
Av Mordecai Lee
Inbunden, 2012
793 kr
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Though historians have largely overlooked Robert Horton, his public relations campaigns remain fixed in popular memory of the home front during World War II. Utilizing all media - including the nascent technology of television - to rally civilian support, Horton's work ranged from educational …
Propaganda and American Democracy
Av Nancy Snow
Häftad, 2014
339 kr
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Propaganda has become an inescapable part of modern American society. On a daily basis, news outlets, politicians, and the entertainment industry - with motives both dubious and well-intentioned - launch propagandistic appeals. In Propaganda and American Democracy, eight writers explore various …
Freeing the Presses
The First Amendment in Action
Av Timothy E. Cook, Regina G. Lawrence
Häftad, 2014
334 kr
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A thoughtful, provocative, and timely account of the meaning of a free press in the United States."" - American Journal of Political ScienceMost Americans consider a free press essential to democratic society - either as an independent watchdog against governmental abuse of power or as a wide-open …
Money, Power, and Elections
How Campaign Finance Reform Subverts American Democracy
Häftad, 2014
334 kr
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Have campaign finance reform laws actually worked? Is money less influential in electing candidates today than it was thirty years ago when legislation was first enacted? Absolutely not, argues Rodney A. Smith in this passionately written, fact-filled, and provocative book. According to Smith, the …
Working Congress
A Guide for Senators, Representatives, and Citizens
Av Robert Mann
Häftad, 2014
297 kr
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In 1964, as the polarizing Civil Rights Act made its way through the House and Senate, and Congress navigated one of the most tumultuous eras in American history, a Harris Poll put the institution's approval rating at 60 percent. Why then, fifty years later, has the public's approval of Congress …
Reporting the Cuban Revolution
How Castro Manipulated American Journalists
Inbunden, 2015
529 kr
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Reporting the Cuban Revolution reveals the untold story of thirteen American journalists in Cuba whose stories about Fidel Castro's revolution changed the way Americans viewed the conflict and altered U.S. foreign policy in Castro's favour.Between 1956 and 1959, the thirteen correspondents worked …
How Public Policy Impacts Racial Inequality
Av Josh Grimm, Jaime Loke
Häftad, 2019
390 kr
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How Public Policy Impacts Racial Inequality, edited by Josh Grimm and Jaime Loke, brings together scholars of political science, sociology, and mass communication to provide an in-depth analysis of race in the United States through the lens of public policy. This vital collection outlines how …
Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign
Av Amber Roessner, Robert Mann
Inbunden, 2020
587 kr
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With the rise of Jimmy Carter, a former Georgia governor and a relative newcomer to national politics, the 1976 presidential election proved a transformative moment in U.S. history, heralding a change in terms of how candidates run for public office and how the news media cover their …
Fake News!
Misinformation in the Media
Av Josh Grimm
Häftad, 2020
390 kr
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Whether used as a political tactic to discredit news stories and media outlets, or as a description of false information manufactured and circulated for profit, the term ""fake news"" holds a particularly caustic sway in twenty-first-century society. A frequent subject of cable news broadcasts, …
Against the Klan
A Newspaper Publisher in South Louisiana During the 1960s
Av Lou Major, Robert Mann
Inbunden, 2021
391 kr
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In 1964, less than one year into his tenure as publisher of the Bogalusa Daily News, New Orleans native Lou Major found himself guiding the newspaper through a turbulent period in the history of American civil rights. Bogalusa, Louisiana, became a flashpoint for clashes between African Americans …
Disinformers
Social Media, Disinformation, and Elections
Häftad, 2024
362 kr
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The Disinformers uncovers the people and the organizations behind the disinformation campaigns that began on social media with the 2016 U.S. presidential election and reached a violent crescendo with the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2020. Edited by social media researcher Lance …
Black Identities and Media in the Twenty-First Century
Av Sheryl Kennedy Haydel, David Stamps
Inbunden, 2026
702 kr
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Black Identities and Media in the Twenty-First Century presents original scholarly essays, drawn from a range of theory-based applications and methodologies, that analyze media representations, effects, and practices relating to Black communities and their varying identities, with particular …
Black Identities and Media in the Twenty-First Century
Av Sheryl Kennedy Haydel, David Stamps
Häftad, 2026
391 kr
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Black Identities and Media in the Twenty-First Century presents original scholarly essays, drawn from a range of theory-based applications and methodologies, that analyze media representations, effects, and practices relating to Black communities and their varying identities, with particular …
From Ronald Reagan to Rodney King
Chronicling America in the "Age of Optimism"
Av Lou Cannon
Inbunden, 2026
605 kr
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A giant of political journalism, Lou Cannon rose to prominence as state bureau chief for the San Jose Mercury News in the late 1960s, covering then-governor of California Ronald Reagan. In 1972, he became a political reporter for The Washington Post, one of the top newspapers in the United States, …
Voice of a Generation
How Journalist Vincent Sheean Brought the World to America
Av Tom Hundley
Inbunden, 2027
545 kr
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Journalist Vincent Sheean (1899–1975) was one of the foremost chroniclers of events that defined the first half of the twentieth century. He covered the Spanish Civil War with his friend Ernest Hemingway. He was the only American journalist in Jerusalem when the first Arab uprising erupted in 1929. …
African American Foreign Correspondents
A History
Häftad, 2026
391 kr
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Though African Americans have served as foreign reporters for almost two centuries, their work remains virtually unstudied. In this seminal volume, Jinx Coleman Broussard traces the history of black participation in international newsgathering. Beginning in the mid-1800s with Frederick Douglass and …
Telling Others What to Think
Recollections of a Pundit
Inbunden, 2004
605 kr
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning editorialist and a former syndicated columnist, Edwin M. Yoder Jr. spent forty years as a newspaper journalist. Telling Others What to Think, he writes, is about ""an education in its broadest sense,"" the experiences and personal influences that formed him.Yoder became a …
