The Race Beat
Author: Roberts, Gene
ISBN: 9780679735656
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 04 Sep 2007
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback / softback
Winner of the 2006 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY. A sweeping narrative of how the press covered, and ultimately came to influence the great Civil Rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. First time in paperback.
Plt;bPgt;PULITZER PRIZE WINNER P#8226; Plt;/bPgt;An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American pressP#8212;and the journalists responsible for themP#8212;profoundly changed the nationP#8217;s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and P#8216;60s.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmenP#8212;black and whiteP#8212;revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings that compelled its citizens to act. Meticulously researched and vividly rendered, Plt;iPgt;The Race BeatPlt;/iPgt; is an extraordinary account of one of the most calamitous periods in our nationP#8217;s history, as told by those who covered it.
ISBN: 9780679735656
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 04 Sep 2007
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback / softback
Winner of the 2006 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY. A sweeping narrative of how the press covered, and ultimately came to influence the great Civil Rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. First time in paperback.
Plt;bPgt;PULITZER PRIZE WINNER P#8226; Plt;/bPgt;An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American pressP#8212;and the journalists responsible for themP#8212;profoundly changed the nationP#8217;s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and P#8216;60s.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmenP#8212;black and whiteP#8212;revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings that compelled its citizens to act. Meticulously researched and vividly rendered, Plt;iPgt;The Race BeatPlt;/iPgt; is an extraordinary account of one of the most calamitous periods in our nationP#8217;s history, as told by those who covered it.
