Creating America
eBook - PDF

Creating America

George Horace Lorimer and The Saturday Evening Post

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Creating America

George Horace Lorimer and The Saturday Evening Post

About this book

Before movies, radio, and television challenged the hegemony of the printed word, the Saturday Evening Post was the preeminent vehicle of mass culture in the United States. And to the extent that a mass medium can be the expression of a single individual, this magazine, with a peak circulation of almost three million copies a week, was the expression of its editor, George Horace Lorimer. Cohn shows how Lorimer made the Post into a uniquely powerful magazine that both celebrated and helped form the values of the time.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. 1897-1907 - "The Greatest Weekly Magazine in the World"
  5. 2. 1908-1913 - "More Than a Million a Week"
  6. 3. 1914-1918 - "A Great Social Influence"
  7. 4. 1919-1922 - "The Foolish Ideas We Have Imported"
  8. 5. 1923-1929 - "This Niagara of Print"
  9. 6. 1930-1936 - "There is Nothing the Matter with America Except Damfoolishness"
  10. Epilogue: George Horace Lorimer, the Boss
  11. Notes
  12. Index