The Magazine in America, 1741-1990

by Mary Ellen Zuckerman and John William Tebbel

Book Overview

Already popular in England, the magazine did not appear in America until 1741, the last of the print media to be established in the New World. Pioneered by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Noah Webster, these first periodicals were written for an elite, and often slavishly followed the patterns established by their British predecessors. Today, American magazine publishing is the most innovative in the world and, far from elitist, reaches a mass...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195051270
• ISBN13: 9780195051278
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.6"