Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America

by David Paul Nord

Book Overview

In the twenty-first century, mass media corporations are often seen as profit-hungry money machines. It was a different world in the early days of mass communication in America. Faith in Reading tells the remarkable story of the noncommercial religious origins of our modern media culture. In the early nineteenth century, a few visionary entrepreneurs decided the time was right to reach everyone in America through the medium of print. Though they were...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195173112
• ISBN13: 9780195173116
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.7"