TY - SER
AU - David Welky
CY - Urbana, IL
LA - English
N1 - <p>Examines how popular newspapers, magazines and books affirmed middle-class values and assured readers they would withstand hard times.&nbsp;</p><p>Contents:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Introduction: "A time not to rock the boat"</li></ul><p>pt. 1.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Newspapers </li><li>The Press encounters the New Deal </li><li>Kidnapping America's child </li><li>Olympic feats of Americanism </li><li>The Gumps: America's comic-strip family&nbsp;</li></ul><p>pt. 2.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Magazines </li><li>How to slant a magazine </li><li>Life, the war, and everything </li><li>Defining womanhood in the Ladies' Home Journal </li><li>Patriot number one, the man of steel&nbsp;</li></ul><p>pt. 3.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Books </li><li>Mainstreaming the book industry</li><li> Finding security in best sellers </li><li>Ellery Queen restores order&nbsp;</li><li><p>Gone with the wind, but not forgotten&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p></li><li>Conclusion: "Everything was better in America."</li></ul>
PB - University of Illinois Press
PP - Urbana, IL
PY - 2008
SN - 9780252032998
EP - 266 pp.
TI - Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression
ER -