Heather Hendershot: 2 books
What's Fair on the Air?
Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
The rise of right-wing broadcasting during the Cold War has been mostly forgotten today. But in the 1950s and ’60s you could turn on your radio any time of the day and listen to diatribes against communism, civil rights, the United Nations, fluoridation, federal income tax, Social Security, or JFK,...
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How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A unique and compelling portrait of William F. Buckley as the champion of conservative ideas in an age of liberal dominance, taking on the smartest adversaries he could find while singlehandedly reinventing the role of public intellectual in the network television era.
When Firing Line premiered...