The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th-Century Journalism
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (541 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1137279826 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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I learned so much." Bob Edwards, longtime host of Morning Editionon NPR"A great book! Lowell Thomas was a man of many facets, and in this book he sparkles in the light Mitchell Stephens shines on him. Barnum and Walter Cronkite makes for first-rate reading." Booklist"Stephens captures the swashbuckling spirit of this early journalist an entertaining look at a unique journalist." Kirkus Reviews"Mitchell Stephen's The Voice of America is the fascinating story of Lowell Thomas, whose rise to media stardom is an adventuresome epic in itself, almost as much the story he weaved around the exploits of T.E. "Vivid and interesting." The Weekly Standard"Will take you into the fascinating life, times, and adventures of the man who was considered the most famous reporter of his time . Nobody can properly understand broadcast journalism without reading Stephens’s riveting account of this larger-than-life globetrotting radio legend.” Douglas Brinkley
Cy Berman said ONE HELLUVA YARN. America: just how did we get to be what we are? Or, maybe, what we think we are. One feeder stream has always been “the news.” The stream has fluctuated in character and content, still, it’s always been a mulligan stew—part fact, part fiction, part education, part titillation, and (a whopping large) part point of view. Not to mention what sublime news critic A.J. Liebling distinguished as its function: The role of journalism, said Liebling, is to report the news; its function is to make money.Nobody has been more instrumental in shaping our long held and. Adventurous and fearless, Lowell Thomas lived a dream. J. Zima Well-researched and with copious detail, as a lifelong journalist, I wondered why I had never heard of Lowell Thomas. I brought the book to my parents' house and sure enough, "He was famous," Mom said. Just goes to show you how many people who influenced world events slide into obscurity as the next generation matures -- until brought into view again.I wanted to cheer for Lowell but questionable decisions about finances made it hard in the opening chapters. No doubt he had chutzpah because frequently he sold to others his intentions, got financial backing, and by golly, usually. This book makes you think! This fascinating, beautifully crafted book on Lowell Thomas is both a biography of the man who was once America’s best-known journalist and a history of the transformations journalism itself underwent in the twentieth century.Mitchell Stephens shows again and again how Lowell Thomas embraced all the new technologies to tell his stories --- from portable typewriter and silent film to network radio, Fox Movietone newsreels, TV and even wide-screen Cinerama.In 19This book makes you think! Bruce Wark This fascinating, beautifully crafted book on Lowell Thomas is both a biography of the man who was once America’s best-known journalist and a history of the transformations journalism itself underwent in the twentieth century.Mitchell Stephens shows again and again how Lowell Thomas embraced all the new technologies to tell his stories --- from portable typewriter and silent film to network radio, Fox Movietone newsreels, TV and even wide-screen Cinerama.In 1941, at the height of his fame as a radio newscaster, Thomas earned an annual salary of $95,645. That made him the . 1, at the height of his fame as a radio newscaster, Thomas earned an annual salary of $95,6This book makes you think! Bruce Wark This fascinating, beautifully crafted book on Lowell Thomas is both a biography of the man who was once America’s best-known journalist and a history of the transformations journalism itself underwent in the twentieth century.Mitchell Stephens shows again and again how Lowell Thomas embraced all the new technologies to tell his stories --- from portable typewriter and silent film to network radio, Fox Movietone newsreels, TV and even wide-screen Cinerama.In 1941, at the height of his fame as a radio newscaster, Thomas earned an annual salary of $95,645. That made him the . 5. That made him the
Stephens was a fellow at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School. He also published Imagine There’s No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World. Mitchell Stephens, a professor of journalism in the Carter Institute at New York University, is the author of A History of News, a New York Times “notable book of the year.” St
His contemporaries were also dazzled by his life. In The Voice of America, Mitchell Stephens offers a hugely entertaining, sometimes critical portrait of this larger than life figure.. Journalists in the last decades of the twentieth centuryincluding Cronkite and Tom Brokawacknowledged a profound debt to Thomas. Thomas delighted in entering “forbidden” countriesTibet, for example, where he met the teenaged Dalai Lama. The first and definitive biography of an audacious adventurerthe most famous journalist of his timewho more than anyone invented contemporary journalism.Tom Brokaw says: "Lowell Thomas so deserves this lively account of his legendary life. Then he assigned himself to report on World War I and returned with an exclusive: the story of “Lawrence of Arabia.” In 1930, Lowell Thomas began delivering America’s initi