The First Texas News Barons

(Part of the Focus on American History Series)

by Patrick Cox

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Newspaper publishers played a crucial role in transforming Texas into a modern state. By promoting expanded industrialization and urbanization, as well as a more modern image of Texas as a southwestern, rather than southern, state, news barons in the early decades of the twentieth century laid the groundwork for the enormous economic growth and social changes that followed World War II. Yet their contribution to the modernization of Texas is largely...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0292709773

ISBN13:9780292709775

Release Date:November 2005

Publisher:University of Texas Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.01 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.9" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Communication & Journalism Communication & Media Studies History Humanities Journalism Journalism & Nonfiction Language Arts Media Studies Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Performing Arts

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