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151 Further Reading A large body of material has been written about American war correspondence . W. Joseph Campbell’s The Year That Defined American Journalism identifies 1897 as a defining time in American history. He gives Harry Scovel his due as the prototype of the modern journalist. Charles Brown’s The Correspondent’s War is an important source for material on the War in Cuba. The Splendid Little War by Frank Freidel about the same war is not a reliable piece. But it is useful for tapping into the spirit of the times in the sense that it is a celebratory text. James Landers’s The Weekly War: Newsmagazines and Vietnam is a thorough account of its subject matter. Gary C. Tallman’s and Joseph P. McKerns’s monograph “Press Mess” documents the Buddhist crisis through the eyes of David Halberstam. Another book on Vietnam is William Prochnau’s Once Upon a Distant War. Daniel Hallin’s book The Uncensored War: The Media and Vietnam is a much cited sociological study of that war. Another excellent work is William Hammond’s Reporting Vietnam: Media and Military at War. It corrects a lot of misinformation on the part of both the military and the press. One of the oldest and finest works on war reporting was Joseph Mathews ’s Reporting the Wars. Nothing I subsequently found in archival records undercut his book. Probably the most popular book on war correspondents is Phillip Knightley’s The First Casualty. However, in trying to cover so much material, this book is sketchy and given to exaggeration . Michael Sweeney wrote about the period from World War I to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in The Military and the Press. But this book collects facts rather than demonstrates his claims. Two very well-researched books are Jeffrey Smith’s War and Press Freedom and John Byrne Cooke’s Reporting the War. The latter’s approach examines the ways the press has satisfied its constitutional responsibility . Many books and articles, too numerous to mention, discuss propaganda in the United States during wartime. Among those I consulted were Garth Jowett’s Propaganda and Persuasion and J. Michael Sproule’s 152 Further Reading Propaganda and Democracy. Another source, especially for the student of the subject is Lawrence Doob’s “Propaganda,” found in the International Encyclopedia of Communication. For readings on communications, including the history of journalism, see Gerald Baldasty, The Commercialization of the News in the Nineteenth Century; Michael Emery, Edwin Emery, and Nancy Roberts, The Press in America: An Interpretive History; Michael Schudson, Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers; John Nerone, The Culture of the Press in the Early Republic; and Kevin G. Barnhurst and John Nerone, The Form of the News. ...

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