Bylines in Despair: Herbert Hoover, the Great Depression, and the U.S. News Media

by Louis W. Liebovich

Through a long public life and short presidency, Herbert Hoover carefully cultivated reporters and media owners as he rose from a relief administrator to president of the United States. During his service to government, he held the conviction that journalists were to be manipulated and mistrusted. When the nation fell into economic disaster, Hoover's misconceptions about the press and press relations exacerbated a national calamity. This book traces...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275948439
• ISBN13: 9780275948436
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"