The Medill Imprint of
the Northwestern University Press
The Medill School of
Journalism Series:
Visions of the
American Press
Title List (with
Foreword Author Suggestions)
Prefatory
note: Though each title below is grounded either thematically or in a specific
historical period, the underlying purpose of each volume will be to explore how
the journalistic events under discussion both reflected and shaped the social,
cultural and political realities of the moment. Furthermore, authors will be
explicitly invited to relate the journalistic outcomes and effects of their
historical study subject to the issues and concerns of the media today.
Individuals who are representative of persons
who might write a volume's foreword have been noted below; suggestions include
prominent historians, practitioners and historical principals. It is important
to add that many of the names below have not been confirmed.
NOTE 1: LEGEND
-- ASTERISK (*) = ASSIGNED, UNDER CONTRACT, IN PRESS or PUBLISHED.
NOTE 2: LISTED
IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, BY STUDY PERIOD (WHERE APPLICABLE):
*Journalism
and the Truth:
Strange
Bedfellows
(rise
of facticity; competing constructions of truth; the current legal limbo)
Foreword:
Howard Baker
Journalism
and the Information-Entertainment Economy:
The Press in
an Age of Celebritude
(the heroic
ideal; celebrity culture; "no brow": rise of popular culture)
Foreword:
John Seabrook
*Women
and the Press:
The
Struggle for Equality
(Seneca
Falls; Progressivism, Voting rights, 1960s; Ms.)
Foreword:
Gail Collins
*First
Ladies and the Press:
The
Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age:
(historical
precedents; Eleanor; activism vs. domesticity; Hillary)
Foreword:
Caryl Rivers
Race
and the Press:
America's
Enduring Issue
(slavery;
emancipation; Jim Crow; civil rights; integration; Black Power; new Middle
Class)
Foreword:
Cornel West
Terrorism
and the Press:
The
Elusive Enemy
(foreign
policy; international; domestic; 9/11/01; USA Patriot Act)
Foreword:
Newton Minow
*Public
Relations and the Press:
The
Troubled Embrace
(19th-century
origins; economic factors; press complacency; public service argument)
Foreword:
Kurt Andersen
*African
American Culture and the Press:
In
the Shadows, in the Light
(integration/separatism;
entertainment and sports; the culture wars; the national discourse)
Foreword:
Henry Louis Gates
*Economic
Life and the Press:
The
Business of the Nation
(mercantile
origins; commercial imperatives; the New Economy; Wolfe's plutography)
Foreword:
Warren Buffet
*Women
of the Washington Press:
Politics,
Prejudice and Persistence
(historical antecedents;
access and leverage; legal confrontations; turning points)
Foreword:
Judy Woodruff
*The
Journalism of Deception:
The
Undercover Temptation
(investigation
and exposure, legal issues, ends vs. means, ethical considerations)
Foreword:
Mike Wallace
*Sports
and The Press:
The
Playful Mirror
(19th century origins, amateurism, TV and the rise of
professionalism, ethical issues)
Foreword: Frank Deford
Impeachment
and the Press:
The
Partisan Predicament
(Andrew Johnson; Nixon; Clinton)
Foreword:
John Dean
*Free
for All:
Journalism
and the World Wide Web
(information
technology; the Internet; online
news services, convergence)
Foreword:
Jeff Jarvis
The
Transformation of Television:
Journalism
and the Great Value Shift
(Local news; de-regulation; cable; shrinking audiences;
new formulas)
Foreword:
Roger Mudd
*The
Environment and the Press:
Frm
Adventure Writing to Advocacy
(19th century sports movements; early outdoor press; CCC;
Rachel Carson; global concerns)
Foreword:
Russell Train
*Religion
and the Media:
The
Sacred Encounters the Secular
(historical antecedents; the sectarian
press; televangelism; re-sacralization)
Foreword:
Theodore Hesburgh
*The
U.S. Supreme Court and the Press:
The
Interpretive Imperative
(Constitutional
issues; perception of Court's role; press management)
Foreword:
Linda Greenhouse
The
Ethnic Press:
Defining
the American Dream
(immigrant
origins; claims and conflicts; rites of association; assimilation and
accommodation)
Foreword:
Edward Kennedy
Community
Journalism:
Local
News and Social Capital
(Local
empowerment; the non-commercial model)
Foreword:
Loren Ghiglione
The
Media's Role in the Rise of the Right
(Neo-cons;
deregulation; economic concentration; the Weekly Standard; Limbaugh)
Foreword:
Ken Auletta
The
Cold War and the Press:
In
the Name of National Security
(WWII
origins, Cuban Bay of Pigs and Missile Crisis, press management, glasnost)
Foreword:
Zbigniew Brzezinski
*Watergate's
Legacy and the Press:
The
Investigative Impluse
(Woodward
and Bernstein; the Post; Nixon; after-effects)
Foreword:
Ben Bradlee
Vietnam
and the Press:
The
First Living-room War
(TV;
Time's editorial; Cronkite mea culpa)
Foreword:
Morley Safer
*The
New Journalism:
The
Unexpected Triumph of the Long-Form Narrative
(Wolfe;
Talese; Capote; Mailer; Thompson; Esquire)
Foreword:
Clay Felker, Tracy Kidder
The
Alternative Press in the 1960s:
Angry
Voices, Other Choices
(Leftist
press; anti-war movement; Chicago '68; Ramparts)
Foreword:
Victor Navasky
*Telling
Stories:
A
Century of Literary Journalism
(sketch
artists; rise of objectivity; fictive hegemony; New Journalism; two later
generations)
Foreword:
Ted Conover
*Civil
Rights and the Press:
Reporting
on the Promised Land
(King,
SCLC; integration; Little Rock; Birmingham; The Defender)
Foreword:
Andrew Young
Illustration
and the Press:
The
Triumph of the Graphic Image
(engraved
origins; rise and fall of fictional image; infographics)
Foreword:
Edward Tufte
Television's
Finest Hour:
Murrow,
McCarthy and the First Amendment
(Cold
War; HUAC hearings, blacklisting; Army-McCarthy hearings)
Foreword:
Floyd Abrams
*American
Photojournalism:
Moment,
Motivation and Meaning
(Brady;
WW I; Life and WW II; Look; Duncan)
Foreword:
Richard Stolley
FDR
and the Press:
The
Origins of the Media Presidency
(press secretary; New Deal; Day of Infamy)
Foreword:
Michael Beschloss
Radio
Journalism:
The
Master's Voice Comes of Age
(Marconi; Paley; fireside chats; NPR)
Foreword:
Garrison Keillor
The
Tabloid Press:
The
Sensationalist Seduction
(True crime; spot photography; supermarket tabloids,
reality TV)
Foreword:
Neal Gabler
The
Golden Age of Magazines
Lippmann, Luce and the American Century
(New Republic; Time, Newsweek, Esquire)
Foreword:
Ronald Steel
*The
Military and the Press:
The
Uneasy Truce
(Sedition
laws; censorship; OWI; Pyle; briefings; embedding)
Foreword:
Roy Guttman
*The
Labor Movement and the Press:
The
Uncertain Encounter
(19th
century origins; the Muckrakers & the Triangle Shirt Waist fire; covering
the conflicts; Big Labor; the Guild; class consciousness and social mobility)
Foreword:
Dennis Rivera
The
Radical Press:
Resistance
and Revolt
(The
Masses; the Red Scare; the labor press)
Foreword:
Noam Chomsky
Progressivism
and the Press:
The
Reformist Tradition
(Muckrakers; Tarbell; Lewis; TNR)
Foreword:
George McGovern
*Journalism
and Realism:
Rendering
American Life
(Crane;
Richard Harding Davis; Remington)
Foreword:
Gay Talese
*The
Yellow Journalism:
The
Press and America's Emergence as a World Power
(Spanish-American
War; Pulitzer; Hearst, etc.)
Foreword:
Geneva Overholser
The
Rise of American Magazine:
Cyrus
Curtis and and the Emergence of the National Market
(the commercial model; Ladies Home Journal; Saturday
Evening Post; Good Housekeeping)
Foreword:
T.J. Jackson Lears
Journalism
in the Age of the Machine:
The
Role of Technological Transformation
(1840s:
steam, railroads, canals, presses; 1880s: transatlantic cable, typewriter,
telephone, offset, halftone, RFD)
Foreword:
Leo Marx
*The
Technology of Journalism:
Cultural
Agents, Cultural Icons
(historical antecedents; early printers; offset presses;
electrification; press as symbol; desktop revolution; digital reproduction; the
future of print)
Foreword:
Neil Chase
*The
Frontier Press:
Westward
Destiny
(the
49ers and the Alta California; Twain; post-Civil War; Indian Wars)
Foreword:
Alan Simpson
The
Civil War and the Press:
Rights
in Conflict
(Harper's
Weekly ; telegraph; Stanton & the inverted pyramid; censorship;
Copperheads)
Foreword:
David Herbert Donald
*The
African-American Newspaper:
Voices
of Freedom
(Douglass; Carver; DuBois)
Foreword:
Clarence Page
*Abolition
and the Press:
Slavery's
Moral Struggle
(William
Lloyd Garrison; The Emancipator; Southern resistance)
Foreword:
Andrew Young
America's
Continental Destiny and the Press:
Defining
a New Nationhood
(Bennett;
Greeley; Raymond)
Foreword:
Harry Maihafer
*The
Southern Press:
Literary
Legacies and the Challenge of Modernity
(Poe;
The Southern Literary Messenger; fiction)
Foreword:
Rick Bragg
*The
Native American Press:
Voices
of Emerging Nations
(oral
traditions, Sequoyah; Boudinott; Cherokee
Phoenix; also post-Civil War)
Foreword:
Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Russell Means
The
Penny Press:
The
Triumph of the Common Man
(urbanization;
Jacksonian democracy; immigration)
Foreword:
Robert Remini
*The
American Revolution and the Press:
The
Promise of Independence
(the
primacy of rights; Franklin; Tom Paine; Isaiah Thomas; Press and government)
Foreword:
Bernard Bailyn
*The
Colonial Press:
Shaping
an American Identity
(adapting
to the New World; the Puritan rationale for "Occurrences"; inventing
local news)
Foreword:
Simon Schama
*The
Idea of a Free Press:
The
Enlightenment and its Unruly Legacy
(Milton,
Areopagitica; Addison and Steele, The Spectator; creation of the
public sphere; conflict with religion)
Foreword:
Daniel Schorr