Unsilent Revolution - Television News and American Public Life, 1948-1991 (Hardcover)

Unsilent Revolution is the story of the impact television news has had on politics, current events and the print media. Looking at major events over the past four decades, this work is an episodic history of the rise and ascendancy of television news. Events and issues covered include: the civil rights struggle in the South, the Red Scare and Joe McCarthy, the Kennedy assassination, space exploration, the Vietnam and Persian Gulf Wars, the hostage crises, and the Ethiopian famine. Donovan and Scherer have used several unpublished journalists' accounts in this book, which synthesizes scholarly sources along with first-hand experiences.