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Rough draft of history : a century of us social movements in the news / Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren

Amenta, Edwin [Verfasser] ; Caren, Neal [Verfasser]

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2023

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource (xii, 344 pages) : Illustrations (black and white).

Princeton studies in American politics

Princeton scholarship online

Previously issued in print: 2022

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-691-23276-8 ; 978-0-69-123278-2

MG 70290

 

USA  Soziale Bewegung  Presse 

 

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A new view of 20th-century US social movements, 'Rough Draft of History' examines how national newspapers covered social movements and the organizations driving them. Edwin Amenta and Neal Caren identify hundreds of movement organizations, from the Women's Christian Temperance Union to Occupy Wall Street, and document their treatment in the news. In doing so, Amenta and Caren provide an alternative account of US history from below, as it was refracted through journalistic lenses. Iconic organizations in the women's rights, African American civil rights, and environmental movements gained substantial media attention. But so too did now-forgotten groups, such as the German-American Alliance, Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, and Peace and Freedom Party. Amenta and Caren show why some organizations made big news while others did not.