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A nice, tight package of meaningful topics quite readable balanced...a fine work...short but substantive innovative in form and content...accessible and insightful...dynamic range of topics. A great supplemental text in a mass media survey or media and history course. Charles Lewis, Minnesota State University Accurate, engaging, and succinct. Provides ample starting point for further discussions and exploration Very readable; the author has a sure hand on his history and makes it accessible to the reader extensive bibliography is a real plus. Joe Zubrick, University of Maine, Fort Kent Streitmatter s book stands alone as the best thematic approach to history available. Students respond to the storytelling tone; the narratives connect the dates and people for them. Susan English, Gonzaga University Impressive. Many texts are chock-full of facts and figures that put students to sleep, not so with Streitmatter s accessible story-telling approach. The evolution of news, from the American revolution to journalism s current condition, is outlined in manageable chapters that capture the imagination. Selene Phillips, University of Louisville Exciting, easy to read, and something students will find different from that 15-lb. boring historical tome. It gives snippets of history but still leaves the reader with an understanding of the importance of the media in U.S. History. I highly recommend it. Susan J. De Bonis, Georgia Southern University Praise for the previous editions: In this engagingly written collection of case studies, Rodger Streitmatter demonstrates that journalism history is much more than a static gallery of the usual portraits. . . . Overall, the second edition of Mightier than the Sword is well worth acquiring, as it offers substantial new content and updates. As in the first edition, Streitmatter writes gracefully and concisely, in a style sure to command students interest. He embeds considerable scholarship in each chapter, so that readers wishing more can easily see where next to go. . . . This book will continue to be useful not only in the standard journalism history course but in myriad others from media and society to media criticism to reporting. Journalism History (Nancy L. Roberts, SUNY-Albany) In succinct, engrossing prose, Streitmatter shows how courageous, effective communicators have accepted their own and their media s limitations to shape the outcome of events from abolitionism to anti-Semitism, women s rights to civil rights, the Ku Klux Klan to Vietnam. Booklist An easy-to-digest . . . overview of the media s influence on American history and politics. . . . A fine introductory textbook for a journalism class. Kirkus Reviews A novel approach to journalism history, presenting key episodes in an engaging style bound to appeal to students and the general public alike. Streitmatter s lucid prose draws on study of both primary and secondary source material to provide a provocative synthesis and serves as a basis for thoughtful examination of the role of the news media in American society. Maurine H. Beasley, University of Maryland at College Park Streitmatter s book is a welcome addition to the growing canon of journalism history. His case studies of significant issues in American history from the American Revolution of Tom Paine and Sam Adams to the New Right of Rush Limbaugh clearly demonstrate how closely the news media is entwined with the life of the nation. This text is a must-read not only for journalism historians but for anyone interested in the ideas and forces that have shaped the nation. Elizabeth V. Burt, American Journalism Historians Association; University of Hartford

A nice, tight package of meaningful topics. quite readable. balanced...a fine work...short but substantive. innovative in form and content...accessible and insightful...dynamic range of topics. A great supplemental text in a mass media survey or media and history course. -Charles Lewis, Minnesota State University Accurate, engaging, and succinct. Provides ample starting point for further discussions and exploration.Very readable; the author has a sure hand on his history and makes it accessible to the reader. extensive bibliography is a real plus. -Joe Zubrick, University of Maine, Fort Kent Streitmatter's book stands alone as the best thematic approach to history available. Students respond to the storytelling tone; the narratives connect the dates and people for them. -Susan English, Gonzaga University Impressive. Many texts are chock-full of facts and figures that put students to sleep, not so with Streitmatter's accessible story-telling approach. The evolution of news, from the American revolution to journalism's current condition, is outlined in manageable chapters that capture the imagination. -Selene Phillips, University of Louisville Exciting, easy to read, and something students will find different from that 15-lb. boring historical tome. It gives snippets of history but still leaves the reader with an understanding of the importance of the media in U.S. History. I highly recommend it. -Susan J. De Bonis, Georgia Southern University <emPraise for the previous editions: In this engagingly written collection of case studies, Rodger Streitmatter demonstrates that journalism history is much more than a static gallery of the usual portraits... Overall, the second edition of Mightier than the Sword is well worth acquiring, as it offers substantial new content and updates. As in the first edition, Streitmatter writes gracefully and concisely, in a style sure to command students' interest. He embeds considerable scholarship in each chapter, so that readers wishing more can easily see where next to go... This book will continue to be useful not only in the standard journalism history course but in myriad others from media and society to media criticism to reporting. -Journalism History (Nancy L. Roberts, SUNY-Albany) In succinct, engrossing prose, Streitmatter shows how courageous, effective communicators have accepted their own and their media's limitations to shape the outcome of events from abolitionism to anti-Semitism, women's rights to civil rights, the Ku Klux Klan to Vietnam. -Booklist An easy-to-digest ... overview of the media's influence on American history and politics... A fine introductory textbook for a journalism class. -Kirkus Reviews A novel approach to journalism history, presenting key episodes in an engaging style bound to appeal to students and the general public alike. Streitmatter's lucid prose draws on study of both primary and secondary source material to provide a provocative synthesis and serves as a basis for thoughtful examination of the role of the news media in American society. -Maurine H. Beasley, University of Maryland at College Park Streitmatter's book is a welcome addition to the growing canon of journalism history. His case studies of significant issues in American history from the American Revolution of Tom Paine and Sam Adams to the New Right of Rush Limbaugh clearly demonstrate how closely the news media is entwined with the life of the nation. This text is a must-read not only for journalism historians but for anyone interested in the ideas and forces that have shaped the nation. -Elizabeth V. Burt, American Journalism Historians Association; University of Hartford

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A journalist and historian, Rodger Streitmatter is a leader in exploring how communication has helped shape the history of the United States. He is a professor of journalism at American University, where he has integrated his research into his teaching and created more than a dozen new courses including popular offerings on how the news media shape history, the role of dissident media, and the media and sexuality. He is a contributor to The Washington Post, The Advocate, and other periodicals, and as a journalism scholar, he has written for Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, American Journalism, and Journalism History, where he is a corresponding editor. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Journalism Historians Association, and on the Executive Committee of the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He has received honours from the Virginia Press Association for his reporting, and from the American Journalism Historian Association as Outstanding Researcher.

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