Advocacy journalists a biographical dictionary of writers and editors /

• Main Author: Applegate, Edd.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, ©2009.
• Subjects: Journalists > Dictionaries. > Biography > United States; Journalism > Bio-bibliography. > History > United States; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.; Journalism.; Journalists.; United States.; Electronic books.; Bio-bibliography.; Biography > Dictionaries.; History.
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In all likelihood advocacy journalism is the oldest form of reportage. It appears frequently whenever journalists desire to advocate their beliefs or ideas about major political or social problems. In Advocacy Journalists: A Biographical Dictionary ofWriters and Editors, Edd Applegate identifies the...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; Lyman Abbott; Joseph Addison; Joseph Alsop; Stewart Alsop; Michael J. Arlen; James Baldwin; Carleton Beals; Sidney Bernard; Ambrose Bierce; Elias Boudinot; Heywood Broun; William F. Buckley Jr.; John Jay Chapman; (Leroy) Eldridge Cleaver; George Creel; Midge Decter; Daniel Defoe; Sarah Margaret Fuller(Marchesa D'Ossoli); Paul Goodman; Vivian Gornick; Meg Greenfield; Germaine Greer; Pete Hamill; Michael Harrington; Nat(han) Hentoff; Jill Johnston; Matthew Josephson; Murray Kempton; Seymour Krim; Jeremy Larner; Michael P. Lerner; Dwight Macdonald.