Reporter in a Troubled World: Marquis W. Childs and the Rise and Fall of Postwar Liberalism.
详细信息
- 作者：Rabe ; Robert A.
- 学历：Ph.D.
- 年：2013
- 导师：Baughman, James L.,eadvisorVaughn, Stephen L.ecommittee memberDrechsel, Robert E.ecommittee memberDowns, Donald A.ecommittee memberReese, William J.ecommittee member
- 毕业院校：The University of Wisconsin
- Department：Mass Communications - LS
- ISBN：9781303273841
- CBH：3588936
- Country：USA
- 语种：English
- FileSize：2964205
- Pages：343
文摘
This dissertation is a study of the career of syndicated newspaper columnist Marquis W. Childs between 1944 and 1968. During these years, Childs worked from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Washington bureau and his column was widely printed in American newspapers. The dissertation analyzes the content of his column and other writings to trace the evolution of his political thinking and his involvement with the most pressing issues and most prominent figures of his era. It examines his reporting and analysis of Cold War domestic and international politics and individual chapters focus on a set of topics that drew from Childs the most sustained attention and emotional engagement. These include the onset of the Cold War and the emergence of what has been called the Cold War consensus, the start of the Atomic Age and early debates about American atomic policy, the red scare and civil liberties, Cold War foreign policy and nuclear disarmament in the Eisenhower and Kennedy eras, the postwar African American freedom movement, and the political and cultural upheaval resulting from American involvement in the Vietnam War. Childs was a moderate leftist influenced by Progressive Era and New Deal models of liberalism. The dissertation situates Childs writing in the broader context of the evolution of liberalism as writers and thinkers sought to refashion core liberal principles to address the needs of a changing, and often deeply challenging, postwar world. It also examines changes in the practice and culture of opinion journalism and the relationship between newsmakers and those who earned their living writing about them in the postwar era.