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This classic text appeared in 1941 and has been used since by
generations of journalism students. The work has been described by
one reviewer as a history of 'American folkways, as reflected in
its press'. Through this work and others on academic journalism,
Mott (1886-1964) became known as one of the founding giants of
journalism education. As a major encyclopedic reference work, the
book concentrates on ten major subject areas, with each section
containing a selective and briefly annotated bibliography. American
Journalism Part 1 0-415-2893-X: 234x156: 390pp: GBP75.00 American
Journalism Part 2 0-415-22894-8: 234x156: 392pp: GBP75.00
"I would rather live in a country with newspapers and without a
government, than in a country with a government but without
newspapers" - Thomas Jefferson. This is the fifth volume in a set
traces the development of American journalism from its early
beginnings in the 17th century up until 1940. Together the books
outline the enormous changes which the industry underwent, from the
production techniques to journalistic practices and changes in
distribution methods. Media historians considered Hudson's history,
"Journalism in the United States, from 1600-1872 (1873)", to be the
authoritative text for the study of the development of American
journalism, a subject previously neglected by American historians.
The work has remained an important source for modern day scholars.
Hudson (1819-75) became known as "the father of journalism" for his
innovative news-gathering practices and was managing editor of the
New York Herald, which by the outbreak of the Civil War was the
most widely read newspaper in the United States. Alfred McClung
Lee's "The Daily Newspaper in America. The Evolution of a Social
Instrument" is an extensive examination of the newspaper industry
from 1710 to 1936, from a
"I would rather live in a country with newspapers and without a
government, than in a country with a government but without
newspapers" - Thomas Jefferson. This is the sixth volume in a set
traces the development of American journalism from its early
beginnings in the 17th century up until 1940. Together the books
outline the enormous changes which the industry underwent, from the
production techniques to journalistic practices and changes in
distribution methods. Media historians considered Hudson's history,
"Journalism in the United States, from 1600-1872 (1873)", to be the
authoritative text for the study of the development of American
journalism, a subject previously neglected by American historians.
The work has remained an important source for modern day scholars.
Hudson (1819-75) became known as "the father of journalism" for his
innovative news-gathering practices and was managing editor of the
New York Herald, which by the outbreak of the Civil War was the
most widely read newspaper in the United States. Alfred McClung
Lee's "The Daily Newspaper in America. The Evolution of a Social
Instrument" is an extensive examination of the newspaper industry
from 1710 to 1936, from a
With Introduction, Bibliography And Notes.
With Introduction, Bibliography And Notes.
In this series of fifteen warm, humorous, autobiographical essays,
Mott expresses the philosophy that we are all a part of the clock
and calendar system on which the world must be run. We must,
however, he insists, stand up and say, I have time enough and to
spare for what I really wish most to do. His essays recount
American ways of life that have almost disappeared, but they also
testify to one man's dynamic and forward-looking philosophy.
Originally published in 1962.
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In the fourth volume of his widely acclaimed History of American
Magazines (volumes two and three of which received the Pulitzer
Prize), Frank Mott carries his story into the first years of our
century. By means of analysis and of lively quotation from the
magazines themselves, the author shows the changes in the social,
political, and economic life of the times in America, the movements
in ideas and taste, and the developments of popular interests. This
is the period when the Saturday Evening Post, the Ladies Home
Journal, Collier's, Cosmopolitan, and National Geographic came into
prominence, and their development-in terms of management, policies,
personalities-is treated in full by Mott. More than thirty other
magazines are surveyed in separate chapters, and hundreds of others
are given shorter treatment. The first few chapters are devoted to
a consideration of the outstanding elements in the over-all
development of American magazines, such as advertising and
illustrations. One of the most important aspects of this two-decade
period was the advent of the highly successful ten-cent illustrated
monthly in the middle nineties. This interfered with the calm and
stately progress of such older thirty-five cent magazines as The
Century, Harper's, and The Atlantic. Ensuing chapters deal with
magazines in the special fields, and in each case the periodicals
themselves are integrated with the background movements. Thus, in
addition to magazines mentioned above, Mott is concerned with
periodicals about literature, the graphic arts, foreign interests,
drama, music, education, religion, philosophy, science, medicine,
engineering, construction, transportation, agriculture, law,
banking, advertising, women's activities, sports, humor, and
hobbies.
In 1939 Frank Luther Mott received a Pulitzer Prize for Volumes II
and III of his History of American Magazines. In 1958 he was
awarded the Bancroft Prize for Volume IV. He was at work on Volume
V of the projected six-volume history when he died in October 1964.
He had, at that time, written the sketches of the twenty-one
magazines that appear in this volume. These magazines flourished
during the period 1905-1930, but their "biographies" are continued
throughout their entire lifespan-in the case of the ten still
published, to recent years. Mott's daughter, Mildred Mott Wedel,
has prepared this volume for publication and provided notes on
changes since her father's death. No one has attempted to write the
general historical chapters the author provided in the earlier
volumes but which were not yet written for this last volume. A
delightful autobiographical essay by the author has been included,
and there is a detailed cumulative index to the entire set of this
monumental work. The period 1905-1930 witnessed the most flamboyant
and fruitful literary activity that had yet occurred in America. In
his sketches, Mott traces the editorial partnership of H. L.
Mencken and George Jean Nathan, first on The Smart Set and then in
the pages of The American Mercury. He treats The New Republic, the
liberal magazine founded in 1914 by Herbert Croly and Willard
Straight; the conservative Freeman; and Better Homes and Gardens,
the first magazine to achieve a circulation of one million "without
the aid of fiction or fashions." Other giants of magazine history
are here: we see "serious, shaggy...solid, pragmatic,
self-contained" Henry Luce propel a national magazine called Time
toward its remarkable prosperity. In addition to those already
mentioned, the reader will find accounts of The Midland, The South
Atlantic Quarterly, The Little Review, Poetry, The Fugitive,
Everybody's, Appleton's Booklovers Magazine, Current History,
Editor & Publisher, The Golden Book Magazine, Good
Housekeeping, Hampton's Broadway Magazine, House Beautiful,
Success, and The Yale Review.
The first volume of this work, covering the period from 1741-1850,
was issued in 1931 by another publisher, and is reissued now
without change, under our imprint. The second volume covers the
period from 1850 to 1865; the third volume, the period from 1865 to
1885. For each chronological period, Mr. Mott has provided a
running history which notes the occurrence of the chief general
magazines and the developments in the field of class periodicals,
as well as publishing conditions during that period, the
development of circulations, advertising, payments to contributors,
reader attitudes, changing formats, styles and processes of
illustration, and the like. Then in a supplement to that running
history, he offers historical sketches of the chief magazines which
flourished in the period. These sketches extend far beyond the
chronological limitations of the period. The second and third
volumes present, altogether, separate sketches of seventy-six
magazines, including The North American Review, The Youth's
Companion, The Liberator, The Independent, Harper's Monthly,
Leslie's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, The Atlantic Monthly, St.
Nicholas, and Puck. The whole is an unusual mirror of American
civilization.
The first volume of this work, covering the period from 1741-1850,
was issued in 1931 by another publisher, and is reissued now
without change, under our imprint. The second volume covers the
period from 1850 to 1865; the third volume, the period from 1865 to
1885. For each chronological period, Mr. Mott has provided a
running history which notes the occurrence of the chief general
magazines and the developments in the field of class periodicals,
as well as publishing conditions during that period, the
development of circulations, advertising, payments to contributors,
reader attitudes, changing formats, styles and processes of
illustration, and the like. Then in a supplement to that running
history, he offers historical sketches of the chief magazines which
flourished in the period. These sketches extend far beyond the
chronological limitations of the period. The second and third
volumes present, altogether, separate sketches of seventy-six
magazines, including The North American Review, The Youth's
Companion, The Liberator, The Independent, Harper's Monthly,
Leslie's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, The Atlantic Monthly, St.
Nicholas, and Puck. The whole is an unusual mirror of American
civilization.
The first volume of this work, covering the period from 1741-1850,
was issued in 1931 by another publisher, and is reissued now
without change, under our imprint. The second volume covers the
period from 1850 to 1865; the third volume, the period from 1865 to
1885. For each chronological period, Mr. Mott has provided a
running history which notes the occurrence of the chief general
magazines and the developments in the field of class periodicals,
as well as publishing conditions during that period, the
development of circulations, advertising, payments to contributors,
reader attitudes, changing formats, styles and processes of
illustration, and the like. Then in a supplement to that running
history, he offers historical sketches of the chief magazines which
flourished in the period. These sketches extend far beyond the
chronological limitations of the period. The second and third
volumes present, altogether, separate sketches of seventy-six
magazines, including The North American Review, The Youth's
Companion, The Liberator, The Independent, Harper's Monthly,
Leslie's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, The Atlantic Monthly, St.
Nicholas, and Puck. The whole is an unusual mirror of American
civilization.
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