Telethons: Spectacle, Disability, and the Business of Charity

by Paul K. Longmore

Book Overview

Movie stars, entertainers, game-show hosts, jugglers, plate-spinners, gospel choirs, corporate executives posing with over-sized checks, household name-brand products, smiling children in leg braces-all were fixtures of the phenomenon that defined American culture in the second half of the twentieth century: the telethon. Hundreds of millions watched these weekend-long variety shows that raised billions of dollars for disability-related charities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190262079
• ISBN13: 9780190262075
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"