Woodrow Wilson and the Press: Prelude to the PresidencyEsteemed journalism historian James Startt has crafted an intriguing case study of the relationship between political leadership and the mass media during its early days, using the political ascendancy of Woodrow Wilson as its focus. Wilson's emergence as a major political figure coincided with the arrival of a real mass media and a more independent, less partisan style of political coverage. While most Nineteenth-century presidents remained aloof from the press, Wilson understood it could no longer be ignored: 'The public man who fights the daily press won't be a public man very long'. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 The President of Princeton and the Press 190210 | 19 |
Chapter 3 Advent of a Public Statesman 190610 | 41 |
Chapter 4 Wilsons Gubernatorial Campaign and the Press | 67 |
Chapter 5 Governor Wilson and the Press 191011 | 93 |
Publicity and Opposition | 117 |
Chapter 7 The Press and Wilsons Preconvention Campaign | 143 |
Chapter 8 Wilson and the Press at the Democratic Convention and Afterward | 175 |
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