Media Marathon: A Twentieth-Century Memoir

by Erik Barnouw

Book Overview

One of the most respected and honored historians of the media, Erik Barnouw has been called a major national resource by The Nation . Norman Corwin dubbed him America's Gibbon. He is the writer, says critic John Leonard, "from whom the rest of us steal instead of doing our research." Media history is his subject, and, as this memoir makes so delightfully clear, it has also been Erik Barnouw's life. Barnouw's story, told with wit and charm in Media...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822317281
• ISBN13: 9780822317289
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"