American Journalism; A History: 1690-1960
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1962. Third Edition [stated], First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 901, [1] pages. Illustrated endpaper. Preface to the Third Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Footnotes. Illustrations. Bibliographical Notes. Index. DJ has some wear,, tears, chips and soiling. RARE Inscribed copy. Author inscription that reads: "This is for the private library of Richard C. Brownlee, for whom I have the highest esteem Frank Luther Mott". The main object of this new revision was to provide a succinct account of the development of journalism in the United States during the decade of the 1950's. Additions to the Bibliographical Notes appended to all the earlier sections have been made; moreover, in an attempt to increase their usefulness by by citing recently published books of acknowledged value. In the new section on the 1950's the author sought to give full recognition to the changes brought about in journalism by the electronic medial and the growth of what was ten called the :mass audience". The author believed these developments were of crucial importance. The author's purpose from the first has been to provide a comprehensive work, in which historical narrative is combining with some of the characteristics of a reference book. Frank Luther Mott (April 4, 1886 – October 23, 1964) was an American academic, historian and journalist, who won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for History for Volumes II and III of his series, A History of American Magazines. In 1959 he won the Bancroft Prize in History. Mott earned his Ph.D. in 1928 from the University of Iowa while a professor there. In 1962, Mott published Time Enough, a collection of autobiographical essays. More