The Race Beat
The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
4 September 2007
Summary
Winner of the 2006 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY.
A sweeping narrative of how the press covered, and ultimately came to influence the great Civil Rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. First time in paperback.
An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s. Roberts and Klibanoff draw on pr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679735656 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679735658 |
| Author: | Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 4 September 2007 |
| Weight: | 437g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 130mm x 201mm |
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Critics Review
“A masterpiece … The Race Beat is a riveting piece of social history that balances both its subjects brilliantly … There has never been a better study of the importance of a free press.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer“Fascinating… . Just when you think there’s nothing left to say about the civil rights movement, [The Race Beat] pulls you back in.” —The Los Angeles Times“The Race Beat has good characters, good yarns and good thinking. Just as important, though, it’s got a good heart.” —Newsweek “Research for The Race Beat is meticulous, uncovering many facts that have gone unreported in other books about the movement … proves a necessary addition to anyone interested in learning more about the movement and the journalists whose work helped transform the South and, indeed, the nation.” —Chicago Sun-Times
Gene Roberts
Gene Roberts is a retired journalism professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was a reporter and editor with the Detroit Free Press, The Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot and The Goldsboro News-Argus before joining The New York Times in 1965, where until 1972 he served as chief Southern and civil rights correspondent, chief war correspondent in South Vietnam, and national editor. During his 18 years as executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, his staff won 17 Pulitzer Prizes. He later became managing editor of the Times.
A native of Alabama, Hank Klibanoff is the Managing editor/news at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He is the former Deputy Managing Editor for ThePhiladelphia Inquirer, where he worked for 20 years. He was also a reporter for three years at the Boston Globe and six years in Mississippi for The Daily Herald, South Mississippi Sun (now the Sun-Herald) and the Greenville Delta Democrat Times.
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