War with Mexico!: America's Reporters Cover the Battlefront

by Tom Reilly and Manley Witten

American war reporting came of age with the Mexican War, just as our nation's newspapers were gaining new prominence through the headline-hawking "penny press." Indeed, the Mexican War was the first to be comprehensively reported in the daily press, with at least thirteen full-time correspondents covering the military campaigns conducted south of the border.

Tom Reilly highlights the synergistic relationship between battlefield reporters and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070061740X
• ISBN13: 9780700617401
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"