Everything was better in America : print culture in the Great Depression / David Welky.
Welky, David.
2008
PN4867 .W45 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Everything was better in America : print culture in the Great Depression / David Welky.
Author Welky, David.
ISBN 9780252032998 (alk. paper)
0252032993 (alk. paper)
9780252075049 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252075048 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.
Language English
Description x, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PN4867 .W45 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 071.3/09043
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series History of communication.
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Introduction: "A time not to rock the boat"
Part One: Newspapers
The Press encounters the New Deal
Kidnapping America's child
Olympic feats of Americanism
The Gumps: America's comic-strip family
Part Two: Magazines
How to slant a magazine
Life, the war, and everything
Defining womanhood in the Ladies' Home Journal
Patriot number one, the man of steel
Part Three: Books
Mainstreaming the book industry
Finding security in best sellers
Ellery Queen restores order
Gone with the wind, but not forgotten
Conclusion: "Everything was better in America."

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