Ranks and Columns: Armed Forces Newspapers in American Wars

Author:   Alfred E. Cornebise
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Edition:   Annotated edition
Volume:   No. 38
ISBN:  

9780313266287


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   30 March 1993
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Format:   Hardback
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Since the Revolutionary War, American military men have published troop newspapers to provide amusement, to keep themselves informed, to aid in maintaining morale, and to encourage those engaged in boring or dangerous pursuits. Beginning as informal ventures, these papers received official sanction as high command began to realize their morale benefits and eventually became an accepted adjunct to the waging of war. Based on a close reading of many soldiers' newspapers, this volume is the first book to provide a historical survey of the U.S. military press from the Revolutionary War to the present. Drawing on the rich detail in the troop newspapers, the book also provides a social record of the attitudes, aspirations, and life of those engaged in war, and considers the increasingly controversial issue of freedom of the press in war time. Taking a chronological approach, the study opens with a consideration of the Revolutionary War and turns to a consideration of the Mexican War of 1846-1848 in chapter 2. The Civil War papers are covered in chapter 3. Chapter 4 discusses the period from 1865 to 1917, when the military press matured. The next two chapters cover the ground forces papers and the air service papers of World War I. Chapters 7 and 8 are devoted to World War II, and the final chapter covers the period since World War II. This volume should become a standard in journalism history.

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Author:   Alfred E. Cornebise
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Edition:   Annotated edition
Volume:   No. 38
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.504kg
ISBN:  

9780313266287


ISBN 10:   031326628
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   30 March 1993
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Ranks and Columns: Armed Forces Newspapers in American Wars by Alfred Emile Cornebise provides a survey from the Civil War through the Vietnam conflict, then just two decades past. - Communication Booknotes Quarterly


<p> Ranks and Columns: Armed Forces Newspapers in American WarS by Alfred Emile Cornebise provides a survey from the Civil War through the Vietnam conflict, then just two decades past. - <p>Communication Booknotes Quarterly


This book's immediate contribution is its impressive documentation of thousands of military newspapers and publications produced since the Revolutionary War. The book's strength is its review of the military press before 1950. The text is well annotated and contains 22 pages of footnotes. Recommended for undergraduates and general readers. - Choice Ranks and Columns: Armed Forces Newspapers in American Wars by Alfred Emile Cornebise provides a survey from the Civil War through the Vietnam conflict, then just two decades past. - Communication Booknotes Quarterly


?This book's immediate contribution is its impressive documentation of thousands of military newspapers and publications produced since the Revolutionary War. The book's strength is its review of the military press before 1950. The text is well annotated and contains 22 pages of footnotes. Recommended for undergraduates and general readers.?-Choice


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ALFRED EMILE CORNEBISE is professor emeritus of history at the University of Northern Colorado. His most recent books include The Stars and Stripes: Doughboy Journalism in World War I (Greenwood, 1984), War Diary of a Combat Artist (1991), and Art from the Trenches (1991).

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