Voice of America: A History

by Alan L. Heil Jr.

Book Overview

The Voice of America is the nation's largest publicly funded broadcasting network, reaching more than 90 million people worldwide in over forty languages. Since it first went on the air as a regional wartime enterprise in February 1942, VOA has undergone a spectacular transformation, and it now employs scores of reporters worldwide and broadcasts around the clock every day of every year, reaching listeners in the four-fifths of the world still denied...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231126743
• ISBN13: 9780231126748
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher