History

EXHIBITING ELECTRICITY by K.G. Beauchamp (IEEE “History of Technology Series No. 21,”; IEEE Publishing and Information Services, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855–1331—$85.00, ISBN 0–85296–895–7, 338 pp., photos, diagrams, tables, references, index)

WCFL: CHICAGO'S VOICE OF LABOR 1926–78 by Nathan Godfried (Urbana: University of Illinois Press “History of Communication Series,”; 1997— $49.95/19.95, ISBN 0–252–02287–4 hard, 0–252–06592–1 paper, 390 pp., photos, notes, bibliography, index)

THE MAN IN THE SHADOWS: FRED COE AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION by Jon Krampner (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997—$32.95, ISBN 0–8135–2359–1, 243 pp., photos, notes, bibliography, appendices, index)

SPECIAL EDITION: A GUIDE TO NETWORK TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY SERIES AND SPECIAL NEWS REPORTS, 1980–1989 by Daniel Einstein (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997‐$110.00, ISBN 0–8108–3220–8,928 pp., several indexes)

TECHNOLOGIES OF SEEING: PHOTOGRAPHY, CINEMATOGRAPHY AND TELEVISION by Brian Winston (London: British Film Institute/ Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996—$49.95/24.95, ISBN0–85170–601–0 hard, 0–85170–602–9 paper, 176 pp., diagrams, notes, index)

RADIO VOICES: AMERICAN BROADCASTING, 1922–1952 by Michelle Hilmes (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997‐$49.95/19.95, ISBN 0–8166–2620–0 hard, 0–8166–2621–9 paper, 353 pp., photos, notes, index)

WRITTEN OUT OF TELEVISION: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CAST CHANGES AND CHARACTER REPLACEMENTS, 1945–1994 by Steven Lance (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996—$89.50, ISBN 0–8108–2902–9, 528 pp., photos, index)

A REPORTER'S LIFE by Walter Cronkite (New York: Knopf, 1996— $26.95, ISBN 0–394–57879–1, 384 pp., photos)     

History

THE BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE: THE GOLDEN YEARS OF RADIO AND TELEVISION by Pat Weaver with Thomas M. Coffey (New York: Knopf, 1994—524.00, ISBN 0–679–40835–5, 276 pp.)

TELEVISION'S GREATEST YEAR: 1954 by R.D. Heldenfels (New York: Continuum, 1994— $24.95, 238 pp.)

TELECOM HISTORY (Telephone History Institute, Box 2818, Dublin, CA 94568–0818— $25.00 for first year, two issues, no ISSN given, 116 pp.)

THE TELEGRAPH: A HISTORY OF MORSE'S INVENTION AND ITS PREDECESSORS IN THE UNITED STATES by Lewis Coe (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994—$25.95, ISBN 0–89950–736–0, 184 pp.)

BYLINES IN DESPAIR: HERBERT HOOVER, THE GREAT DEPRESSION, AND THE U.S. NEWS MEDIA by Louis W. Liebovich (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994—552.95, ISBN 0–275–94843–9, 256 pp.)     

History

EDISON'S ELECTRIC LIGHT: BIOGRAPHY OF AN INVENTION by Robert Friedel, et al. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986—$27.95 until July 1st, then $35)

ENGINEERS & ELECTRONS: A CENTURY OF ELECTRICAL PROGRESS by John D. Ryder and Donald G. Fink (IEEE Press, 345 East 47th St., New York 10017—price not given)

THE MAKING OF A PROFESSION: A CENTURY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING IN AMERICA by A. Michal McMahon (New York: IEEE Press, see address to left, 1984—price not given)

IBM'S EARLY COMPUTERS by Charles J. Bashe, et al (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986—$27.50)

THE POWER OF THE PRESS: THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN POLITICAL REPORTING by Thomas C. Leonard (New York: Oxford, 1986—$22.50)     

History

AM STEREO AND THE FCC: CASE STUDY OF A MARKETPLACE SHIBBOLETH by Mark J. Braun (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1994—$39.50/19.50, ISBN 0–89391–966–7 hard, 0–56750–000–5, paper, 216 pp.)

PHILCO RADIO 1928–1942: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR RADIOS by Ron Ramirez and Michael Prosise (Schiffer Publishing, 77 Lower Valley Rd., Rt. 372, Atglen, PA 19310—$29.50, paper, ISBN 0–88740–547–9, 188 pp.)

SEE IT NOW CONFRONTS McCARTHYISM: TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION by Thomas Rosteck (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994—$29.95, ISBN 0–8173–0705–2, 247 pp.)

THE HOUSE THAT ROONE BUILT: THE INSIDE STORY OF ABC NEWS by Marc Gunther (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994— $23.95, ISBN 0–316–33151–1, 381 pp.)

SCIENCE OF COERCION: COMMUNICATION RESEARCH & PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE 1945–1960 by Christopher Simpson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994—$29.95, ISBN 0–19–507193‐X, 204 pp.)

FIGHTING FOR AIR: IN THE TRENCHES WITH TELEVISION NEWS by Liz Trotta (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1994—$16.95, paper, ISBN 0–8262–0952–1, 399 pp.)     

History

MARCONI by Giancarlo Masini (Marsilio Publishers, 853 Broadway, New York 10003—$26.00, ISBN 1–56886–028–5, 370 pp.)

PROPAGANDA FOR WAR: HOW THE UNITED STATES WAS CONDITIONED TO FIGHT THE GREAT WAR OF 1914–1918 by Stewart Halsey Ross (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 1996—$42.50, ISBN 0–7864–0111–7, 341 pp.)

RADIO PRIEST: CHARLES COUGHLIN, THE FATHER OF HATE RADIO by Donald Warren (New York: Free Press, 1996—$27.50, ISBN 0–684–82403–5, 376 pp.)

MEDIA MEMOIR: A TWENTIETH‐CENTURY MEMOIR by Erik Barnouw (Chapel Hill: Duke University Press, 1996—price not given, ISBN 0–8223–1728–1, 264 pp.)     

A Short History of the History of Objectivity

This article provides a broad overview of how American journalism historians have treated the concept of objectivity in the latter part of the 20th century. In following the narrative of objectivity's history, the author finds that historians’ narratives have shifted as intellectual attitudes toward objectivity have changed. Now that objectivity no longer plays as central a role in journalism as it once did, histories of the concept may shift once again.     

Telephone History

DISCONNECTING PARTIES—MANAGING THE BELL SYSTEM BREAK-UP: AN INSIDE VIEW by W. Brooks Tunstall (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985--$17.95)

THE TELEPHONE ENTERPRISE: THE EVOLUTION OF THE BELL SYSTEM'S HORIZONTAL STRUCTURE, 1876-1909 by Robert W. Garnet (210 pp.---$22.50)

THE ANATOMY OF A BUSINESS STRATEGY: BELL, WESTERN ELECTRIC, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN TELEPHONE INDUSTRY by George David Smith (237 pp.---$20.00)

FROM INVENTION TO INNOVATION: LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE TRANSMISSION AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY by Neil H. Wasserman (160 pp.--$17.50)

THE TELEPHONE BOOK: BELL, WATSON, VAIL AND AMERICAN LIFE, 1876-1983 by H.M. Boettinger (available from AT&T Corporate Archives, 195 Broadway, New York, N.Y.---$35.00, paper)     

Computer History

FROM ENIAC TO UNIVAC: AN APPRAISAL OF THE ECKERT-MAUCHLY COMPUTERS by Nancy Stern (1981, 286 pp.—$25.00).

EARLY BRITISH COMPUTERS by Simon Lavington (1980, 139 pp.—$9.00, paper).

PROJECT WHIRLWIND: THE HISTORY OF A PIONEER COMPUTER by Kent C. Redmond and Thomas M. Smith (1980, 280 pp.—$25.00).

HERMAN HOLLERITH: FORGOTTEN GIANT OF INFORMATION PROCESSING by Geoffrey D. Austrian (originally published by Columbia University Press in New York: 1982. 418 pp.-819.95).

THE COMPUTER FROM PASCAL TO VON NEUMANN by Herman H. Goldstine (originally published by Princeton University Press in 1972, and also available since 1980 in paperback, 378 pp.—$25.00).

RECKONERS: THE PREHISTORY OF THE DIGITAL COMPUTER, FROM RELAYS TO THE STORED PROGRAM CONCEPT, 1935-1945, by Paul E. Ceruzzi (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1963— $29.95).     

Cinema History

Jack C. Ellis, A History of Film (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979—$11.95, paper)

John L. Fell, A History of Films (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979— $14.95/9.95)

William K. Everson American Silent Film (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—$17.50)

Jack Ellis, Charles Derry, and Sharon Kern, The Film Book Bibliography: 1940-1975 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1979—$28.50)

James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts, Hollywood on Hollywood (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978—$17.50)

Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin, eds. The Modern American Novel and the Movies (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1978—$14.50/6.95)

Richard Shale, comp. Academy Awards: An Ungar Reference Index (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1978—$24.50/ 8.95)

David Zinman 50 from the 50's: Vintage Films from America's Mid-Century (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1979—$25.00)

Darlene Geis Walt Disney's Treasury of Children's Classics (New York: Harry Abrams, 1978—$25.00)

James Monaco Alain Resnais (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—$5.95, paper).     

Film History

John W. Landon BEYOND THE MIGHTY WURLITZER: THE HISTORY OF THE THEATRE PIPE ORGAN (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press,,1983—$29.95).

Susannah Harris Stone THE OAKLAND PARAMOUNT (Berkeley California: Lancaster-Miller Publishers, 1981—$11.95).

John Fell FILM BEFORE GRIFFTTH (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1984—$24.50/$10.95).

Herbert Marshall MASTERS OF THE SOVIET CINEMA: CRIPPLED CREATIVE BIOGRAPHIES (London: Routledge 8 Kegan Paul, 1983—$29.95).

John Kobal and V.A. Wilson FOYER PLEASURE: THE GOLDEN AGE OF CINEMA LOBBY CARDS (New York: Deliliah Books, 1983—$12.95).

Don Graham COWBOYS AND CADILLACS: HOW HOLLYWOOD LOOKS AT TEXAS (Texas Monthly Press, P.O. Box 1569, Austin, Texas 78767—$10.95).     

Television History

SATURDAY MIGHT: A BACKSTAGE HISTORY OF SATURDAY MIGHT LIVE by Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad (New York: Beech Tree Books/Morrow, 1986—$17.95)

THE SOAP OPERA ENCYCLOPEDIA by Christopher Schemering (New York: Ballantine Books, 1985—$8.95, paper)

WARNER BROS. TELEVISION: EVERY SHOW OF THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES EPISODE-BYEPISODE by Lynn Woolley, et al. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1985—$25.95)

THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN BANDSTAND by Michael Shore with Dick Clark (New York: Ballantine Books, 1985—$12.95, paper)

A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO TV MEMORABILIA by Anthony Slide (Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 580 Waters Edge, Lombard, IL 60148—$13.95, paper)     

Telecommunication History

THE CONQUEST OF THE MICROCHIP by Hans Queisser (Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 1988—$24.95, ISBN 0-674-16296-X)

BLUE MAGIC: THE PEOPLE, POWER AND POLITICS BEHIND THE IBM PERSONAL COMPUTER by James Chposky (CORRECT) and Ted Leonsis (New York: Facts on File, 1988—$19.95, ISBN 0-8160-1391-8)

FUMBLING THE FUTURE: HOW XEROX INVENTED, THEN IGNORED, THE FIRST PERSONAL COMPUTER by Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander (New York: Wm. Morrow, 1988—$18.95, ISBN 0-688-06959-2)

PORTRAITS IN SILICON by Robert Slater (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987—$24.95, ISBN 0-262-19262-4)     

Photographic History

Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr.'s Mathew Brady and His World (Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1977—S19.95)

Robert A. Weinstein and Larry Booth's Collection, Yse, and Care of Historical Photographs (Nashville, Tenn.: American Association for State and Local History, 1977—$16.00)

Thomas L. Davis , A Guide to Your Family's Photographic Heritage (Addison House, Shots: Morgan's Run, Danbury, N.H. 03230—S3.95, paper)

William Inns Homer's Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1977— $17.50)

19th and 20th Century Photographs (Lunn Gallery and Graphics International Ltd., 3243 P St. NW, Washington D.C. 20007—$10.00, paper)     

Film History

Richard Meran Barsam's Nonfiction Film: A Critical History (New York: Dutton, 1973 -- $9.95/4.95)

Stanley Kauffmann and Bruce Henstell (eds.) American Film Criticism from the Beginnings to Citizen Kane: Reviews of Significant Films at the Time They First Appeared (New York: Liveright 1973 -- $12.00/3.95)

Donald C. Willis' Horror and Science Fiction Films: A Checklist (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972 -- $15.00)

Chris Steinbrunner and Burt Goldblatt's Cinema of the Fantasic (New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972 -- $9.95)

Lawrence B. Thomas' The MGM Years: The Golden Age of Movie Musicals (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Columbia House (distribution by Arlington House), 1972 -- $14.95)     

Film History

David A. Cook, A History of Narrative Film (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981 -- $15.95 paper)

Gerald Mast, A Short History of the Movies, 3rd edition (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Educational Publishing, 1981 -- $12.95 paper, issued in hardcover by University of Chicago Press for $20.00)

A. R. Fulton, Motion Pictures: The Development of an Art Revised Edition (Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1981 -- $14.95 in hardcover)

Richard Koszarski (ed.), The Rivals of D. W. Griffith: Alternative Auteurs, 1913-18 (First published by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, now available from New York Zoetrope, 31 East Twelfth Street, New York City 10003 for $4.95 in paperback)

Anthony Slide and Edward Wagenkneckt, Fifty Great American Silent Films, 1912- 1920 (New York: Dover, 1980 -- $6.95 paper).

Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy, The Hollywood Social Problem Film: Madness, Despair and Politics from the Depression to the Fifties (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981 -- $25.00 cloth/$12.95 paperback)

I. G. Edmonds and Reiko Mimura, Paramount Pictures and the People Who Made Them (San Diego: A. S. Barnes, 1980 -- $17.50 hardcover)     

Telecommunications History

Henry M. Field, The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph (originally published by Scribner's in 1893, 415 pp.)

John E. Kingsbury, The Telephone and Telephone Exchanges: Their Invention and Development (Longmans, Green, 1915, 558 pp.)

George B. Prescott, Bell's Electric Speaking Telephone: Its Invention, Construction, Application, Modification and History (Appleton, 1884, 526 pp.)

Robert Luther Thompson, Wiring a Continent: The History of the Telegraph Industry in the United States, 1832-66 (Princeton University Press, 1947, 544 pp.)

The Horn Speaker (P.O. Box 12, Kleberg, Texas 75145 -- $3.00 per year/10 issues)     

Film History

Colin Shindler, Hollywood Goes to Wars Films and American Society, 1939-1952 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979 – $20.00)

Barbara Zheutlin and David Talbot, Creative Differences: Profile of Hollywood Dissidents (Boston: South End Press, 1978– $5.40 paper)

The Adventures of Robin Hood, edited and an introduction by Rudy Behlmer, 235 pages

The Green Pastures, edited and an introduction by Thomas Cripps, 206 pages.

High Sierra, edited and an introduction by Douglas Gomery, 189 pages.

Our Lady Cinema by Harry Furniss (originally London: Bristol, 1914—reprint $16.00)

Jew Suss by Arthur Rawlinson and Dorothy Farnam (originally London: Methuen, 1935–reprint $18.00)

Marcia Blitz, Donald Duck (New York: Harmony Books/Crown, 1979— $12.95)     

Communication History

PRINTERS AND PRESS FREEDOM: THE IDEOLOGY OF EARLY AMERICAN JOURNALISM by Jeffery A. Smith (New York: Oxford, 1987—$24.95: ISBN 0-19-505144-0)

COMMUNICATIONS AND HISTORY: THEORIES OF MEDIA, KNOWLEDGE, AND CIVILIZATION by Paul Heyer (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988—$37.95: ISBN 0-313-26157-1)

WHEN OLD TECHNOLOGIES WERE NEW: THINKING AB0UT COMMUNICATIONS IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY by Carolyn Marvin (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988 $34.50: ISBN 0-19-50*4468-1)     

Communication History

NEW AND IMPROVED: THE STORY OF MASS MARKETING IN AMERICA by Richard S. Tedlow (New York: Basic Books, 1990—$24.95, ISBN 0-465-05023-9,481 pp.)

EDISON AND THE BUSINESS OF INNOVATION by Andre Millard (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990—$38.50, ISBN 0-8018-3306-X, 387 pp.)

COMPUTING BEFORE COMPUTERS edited by William Aspray (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990—$27.95, ISBN 0-8138-0047-1, 276 pp.)

AMERICAN MASS-MARKET MAGAZINES edited by Alan Nourie and Barbara Nourie (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1990—$79.95, ISBN 0-313-25254-8, 624 pp.)

JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA by Hazel Dicken-Garcia (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989—$42.50/14.50, ISBN 0-299-12170-4 hard, 0-299-12174-7 soft, 342 pp.)

THE WATCHDOG CONCEPT: THE PRESS AND THE COURTS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA by Timothy W. Gleason (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990—$21.95, ISBN 0-8138-0152-4, 160 pp.)

MUCKRAKING AND OBJECTIVITY: JOURNALISM'S COLLIDING TRADITIONS by Robert Miraldi (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990—$39.95, ISBN 0-313-27298-0, 184 pp.)