American Journalists in the Great War: Rewriting the Rules of Reporting

American Journalists in the Great War: Rewriting the Rules of ReportingDescription by Chris Dubbs Hardcover When war erupted in Europe in 1914, American journalists hurried across the Atlantic ready to cover it the same way they had covered so many other wars. However, very little about this war was like any other. Its scale, brutality, and duration forced journalists to write their own rules for reporting and keeping the American public informed. American Journalists in the Great War tells the dramatic stories of the

and on what this history has to teach us

while also exploring the first stirrings of a civil rights movement that would transform American society forty years later

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and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford

Well-researched and rich with ghastly details

One by one they are picked off

United States First Division

Assigned to a field hospital

The picture that emerges is often at odds with the popular notion of the disillusioned doughboy

When war broke out in Europe in August of 1914

even as it held a grudge over the loss of Alsace-Lorraine

Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle