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Lou Major's richly detailed personal account offers a ground-level view of the challenges local journalists faced when covering civil rights campaigns in the Deep South and of the role played by the press in exposing the nefarious activities of hate groups such as the Klan.

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 US foreign policy in Castro's favour. The book is both a masterwork of narrative nonfiction and a deft analysis of the tension between propaganda and objectivity.

Explores the reasons for US Congress's decline in public opinion, and proposes remedies to reverse the grave dysfunction in America's most important political institution. Robert Mann and his contributors identify partisan rancour as perhaps the most significant reason for the American public's declining support of its main representative body.

Explores various aspects of modern propaganda and its impact. This is an in-depth examination and demonstration of the pervasiveness of propaganda, providing citizens with the knowledge needed to mediate its effect on their lives.

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.

Though historians have largely overlooked Robert Horton, his public relations campaigns remain fixed in popular memory of the home front during World War II. Promoting the War Effort traces the career of Horton - the first book-length study to do so - and delves into the controversies surrounding federal public relations.

A new era of political power has arrived, one in which social media plays a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition, contributors discuss technological changes in the context of studies and techniques that remain unchallenged, resulting in a truly comprehensive manual of the world of political communication.

In this groundbreaking collection, contributors place developments in public-opinion polling into a broader historical context, examine how to construct accurate meanings from public-opinion surveys, and analyse the future of public-opinion polling.

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 Hayden describes the press's newfound power in the war's aftermath - that seminal moment when journalists discovered their ability to help broker peace talks.

Now that live news coverage is possible from virtually anywhere, is foreign correspondence better? And what are the implications of recent changes in journalistic technology? David Perlmutter and John Maxwell Hamilton survey, probe, and demystify the new foreign correspondence that has emerged from rapidly changing media technology.

Offers the first in-depth exploration of the profound changes in the nominating process to focus on the role of the media. Fourteen luminaries from the worlds of media and politics examine how the technology of "coverage" has transformed conventions over time.

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 Strother is unafraid to name names and refuses to mince words.

Chronicles a change in the negotiation of political image-craft and the role it played in Jimmy Carter's meteoric rise to the presidency. Amber Roessner contends that Carter's underdog victory signaled a transition from an older form of party politics focused on issues and platforms to a newer brand of personality politics driven by image.

Gathers a range of critical approaches to provide an essential resource for readers, students, and teachers interested in understanding this ever-present feature of today's media and political landscape. This volume offers a wide-ranging and accessible discussion of debates central to the current post-truth era.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning editorialist and a former syndicated columnist, Edwin 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.

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 collection outlines how issues such as profiling, wealth inequality, and housing segregation relate to race and policy decisions at both the local and national levels.

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 Smith in this passionately written and provocative book. According to Smith, the laws have had exactly the opposite of their intended effect.

With contributions from leading scholars in the fields of history, legal scholarship, political science, and communications, this revised and updated edition of Freeing the Presses offers an in-depth inquiry into the theory and practice of journalistic freedom.