Becoming the Second City
Publisher： University of Illinois Press
Publication year： 2010
E-ISBN: 9780252090189
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780252035890
Subject： C91 Sociology;H0 Linguistics
Keyword： 社会学,语言学
Language： ENG
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Description
Becoming the Second City examines the development of Chicago's press and analyzes coverage of key events in its history to call attention to the media's impact in shaping the city's cultural and historical landscape. In concise, extensively documented prose, Richard Junger illustrates how nineteenth-century newspapers acted as accelerants that boosted the growth of Chicago in its early history by continually making and remaking the city's public image as the nation's populous "Second City." Highlighting the newspaper industry's involvement in the business and social life of Chicago, Junger casts newspaper editors and reporters as critical intermediaries between the elite and the larger public and revisits key events and issues including the Haymarket Square bombing, the 1871 fire, the Pullman Strike, and the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.