Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Clarke ThomasPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press Dimensions: Width: 18.00cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 25.50cm Weight: 0.934kg ISBN: 9780822942481ISBN 10: 0822942488 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 01 February 2005 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsDetails the paper's history from its start in 1786 through wars, publishers, changing politics, journalistic evolutions, suffrage, and a strike that held a mirror to Pittsburgh. We realize, through this book, how the written news acts as a constant to the readers of a sometimes uncertain region.... Take the insider journey, you'll find a renewed sense of respect for the paper that made the trip. -Carol Lee Espy, WQED-TV; A wonderful book! Enjoyable, informative, and well written. It gives readers the inside story about the peculiar merger of the Post and the Gazette in the 1920s and the incredible account of the survival of the Post-Gazette rather than the Press during the 1990s. -Van Beck Hall, University of Pittsburgh Author InformationClarke M. Thomas, was a combat infantryman in World War II, spent forty-three years as a newspaperman in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania. In 1997 he received the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania President's Award “in recognition of outstand Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
