Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans

by Julia Guarneri

Book Overview

At the turn of the twentieth century, ambitious publishers like Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and Robert McCormick produced the most spectacular newspapers Americans had ever read. Alongside current events and classified ads, publishers began running comic strips, sports sections, women's pages, and Sunday magazines. Newspapers' lavish illustrations, colorful dialogue, and sensational stories seemed to reproduce city life on the page...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022634133X
• ISBN13: 9780226341330
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"