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The Gilded Age Press, 1865-1900
Ted Curtis Smythe
Book Code: GM0080
ISBN: 0-313-30080-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30080-6
256 pages, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 8/30/2003
List Price: $99.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: The History of American Journalism
Series Number: 4
Reviews:
  • Though retaining some of its politically partisan heritage, the American press underwent a dramatic transformation in the post-Civil War years. Smythe presents a brief, sweeping survey of American journalism in the so-called Gilded Age. Each chapter examines the press in a specific time period and evaluates the changes that were taking place....Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
    —Choice     March 2004
Description: American newspapers redefined journalism after the Civil War by breaking away from the editorial and financial control of the Democratic and Republican parties. Smythe chronicles the rise of the New Journalism, where pegging newspaper sales to market forces was the cost of editorial independence. Successful papers in post-bellum America thrived by catering to a mass audience, which increased their circulations and raised their advertising revenues. Still active politically, independent editors now sought to influence their readers' opinions themselves rather than serve as conduits for the party line.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Changing Nation and a Changing Press, 1865-1872
  • Partisanship Under Attack, 1865-1872
  • Rural and Regional Journalism, 1865-1882
  • The Growth of an Independent Press, 1873-1882
  • A New Journalism Forms in the Midwest, 1873-1882
  • Western Journalism Invades New York, 1883-1885
  • The Commercial Press and New Technologies, 1886-1895
  • Newsmongers, 1883-1895
  • The Yellow Press, 1896-1900
  • Reflections on the Gilded Age Press
  • Bibliographical Essay
  • Sources
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2003042071
LCC Class: PN4855
Dewey Class: 071
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