Forgotten Firebrand – James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth–Century America
Autor John R. McKiviganen Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 mar 2008
Examining Redpath's varied career enables McKivigan to cast light on the history of journalism, public speaking, and mass entertainment in the United States. Redpath's newspaper writing is credited with popularizing the stenographic interview in the American press, and he can be studied as a prototype for later generations of newspaper writers who blended reportage with participation in reform movements. His influential biography of John Brown justified the use of violent actions in the service of abolitionism.
Redpath was an important figure in the emerging professional entertainment industry in this country. Along with his friend P. T. Barnum, Redpath popularized the figure of the "impresario" in American culture. Redpath's unique combination of interests and talents--for politics, for journalism, for public relations--brought an entrepreneurial spirit to reform that blurred traditional lines between business and social activism and helped forge modern concepts of celebrity.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780801446733
ISBN-10: 0801446732
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press
ISBN-10: 0801446732
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press
Descriere
The first full-length biography of the influential nineteenth-century American reformer, reporter, and...