The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th-Century Journalism
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (503 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MRQY3SW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 310 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Refreshingly honest. Nobody can properly understand broadcast journalism without reading Stephens’s riveting account of this larger-than-life globetrotting radio legend.” Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University and author of Cronkite"Lowell Thomas so deserves this lively account of his legendary life. Lawrence, which made him forever 'Lawrence of Arabia.'" Michael Korda, author of Hero“Mitchell Stephens’s The Voice of America is a first-rate and much-needed biography of the great Lowell Thomas. Like TE Lawrence, Thomas was not only a remarkable man but a reflection of the fascinating era in which he lived." Theodore Janulis, president, The Explorers Club. If we want to know where our modern media is going, we definitely need to understand where it came from." Bustle"This books preserves Thomas's place
. Mitchell Stephens, a professor of journalism in the Carter Institute at New York University, is the author of A History of News, a New York Times “notable book of the year.” Stephens also has written several other books on journalism and media, including Beyond News: The Future of Journalism and the rise of the image the fall of the word. Stephens was a fellow at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard&rsqu
Journalists in the last decades of the twentieth century—including Cronkite and Tom Brokaw—acknowledged a profound debt to Thomas. He was a man for all seasons."Few Americans today recognize his name, but Lowell Thomas was as well known in his time as any American journalist ever has been. His contemporaries were also dazzled by his life. His was the trusted voice that kept Americans abreast of world events in turbulent decades – his face familiar, too, as the narrator of the most popular newsreels. Raised in a Colorado gold-rush town, Thomas covered crimes and scandals for local then Chicago newspapers. In The Voice of America, Mitchell Stephens offers a hugely entertaining, sometimes critical portrait of this larger than life figure.. He began lecturing on Alaska, after spending eight days in Alaska. Thomas delighted in entering “forbidden” countries—Tibet, for example, where he met the teenaged Dalai Lama. In a prime-time special after Thomas died in 1981, Walter Cronkite said that Thomas had “crammed a couple of centuries worth of
ONE HELLUVA YARN Cy Berman America: just how did we get to be what we are? Or, maybe, what we think we are. One feeder stream has always been “the news.” The stream has fluctuated in character and content, still, it’s always been a mulligan stew—part fact, part fiction, part education, part titillation, and (a whopping large) part point of view. Not to mention what sublime news critic A.J. Liebling distinguished . Adventurous and fearless, Lowell Thomas lived a dream. J. Zima Well-researched and with copious detail, as a lifelong journalist, I wondered why I had never heard of Lowell Thomas. I brought the book to my parents' house and sure enough, "He was famous," Mom said. Just goes to show you how many people who influenced world events slide into obscurity as the next generation matures -- until brought into view again.I wanted to cheer for Lowell but questionable decisions abou. Bruce Wark said This book makes you think!. This fascinating, beautifully crafted book on Lowell Thomas is both a biography of the man who was once America’s best-known journalist and a history of the transformations journalism itself underwent in the twentieth century.Mitchell Stephens shows again and again how Lowell Thomas embraced all the new technologies to tell his stories --- from portable typewriter and silent film to network radio, Fox Mo