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A forceful account of the rise of journalism as important political force...
University of Illinois Press
October 2004
771 pages
ISBN: 0252069412
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Non-Fiction Biography
Crackling with
the personalities, conflicts, and ambitions that
transformed the media
from something that followed the news to something
that formed it, The
Powers That Be is David Halberstam's forceful
account of the rise
of modern media as an instrument of political power,
published here with
a new introduction by the author.
Beginning with
FDR's masterful use of radio to establish the sense
of a benevolently
paternal relationship with the American people and
culminating in the
discovery and coverage of the Watergate break-in,
Halberstam tracks the
firm establishment of the media as a potent means of
shaping both public
opinion and public policy. He tells the story
through vivid, intimate
portraits of the men, women, and politics behind
four key media organizations:
CBS and its board chairman William S. Paley;
Time magazine and
its cofounder Henry Luce; the Washington Post
and successive publishers
Philip Graham and his wife, Katherine; and the
Los Angeles Times
and publishers Norman Chandler and his son, Otis.
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