Advocacy Journalists
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Advocacy Journalists

A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors

  1. 254 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Advocacy Journalists

A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors

About this book

In all likelihood advocacy journalism is the oldest form of reportage. It appears frequently whenever journalists desire to advocate their beliefs or ideas about major political or social problems. In Advocacy Journalists: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors, Edd Applegate identifies the most notable figures in this field. Each entry contains biographical information about a writer or editor who either wrote advocacy journalism or edited one or more publications that featured such material.

Entries consist of discussions of the journalists' lives, professional careers, major works, and, in some cases, commentary on those works. Among those profiled here are such notables as Ambrose Bierce, William F. Buckley Jr., Eldridge Cleaver, Daniel Defoe, Germaine Greer, Pete Hamill, Karl Marx, H. L. Mencken, George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Wilfrid Sheed, Gloria Steinem, and Jonathan Swift.

Unlike other books that focus on the form of advocacy journalism itself or how and why it developed, this book focuses on the lives of journalists and editors and their contributions to advocacy journalism. For scholars, teachers, and students of journalism, along with general readers who wish to discover more about advocacy journalism, this volume is an important and accessible resource.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Lyman Abbott
  5. Joseph Addison
  6. Joseph Alsop
  7. Stewart Alsop
  8. Michael J. Arlen
  9. James Baldwin
  10. Carleton Beals
  11. Sidney Bernard
  12. Ambrose Bierce
  13. Elias Boudinot
  14. Heywood Broun
  15. William F. Buckley Jr.
  16. John Jay Chapman
  17. (Leroy) Eldridge Cleaver
  18. George Creel
  19. Midge Decter
  20. Daniel Defoe
  21. Sarah Margaret Fuller(Marchesa D’Ossoli)
  22. Paul Goodman
  23. Vivian Gornick
  24. Meg Greenfield
  25. Germaine Greer
  26. Pete Hamill
  27. Michael Harrington
  28. Nat(han) Hentoff
  29. Jill Johnston
  30. Matthew Josephson
  31. Murray Kempton
  32. Seymour Krim
  33. Jeremy Larner
  34. Michael P. Lerner
  35. Dwight Macdonald
  36. Karl Marx
  37. Henry Mayhew
  38. H. L. Mencken
  39. Cleveland LangstonMoffett
  40. Willie Morris
  41. Jack Newfield
  42. George Orwell
  43. Thomas Paine
  44. Westbrook Pegler
  45. Richard Reeves
  46. Robin Reisig
  47. Wilfrid Sheed
  48. Gail Sheehy
  49. Richard Steele
  50. Gloria Steinem
  51. Simeon Strunsky
  52. Harvey Swados
  53. Jonathan Swift
  54. Gore Vidal
  55. Nicholas von Hoffman
  56. William Allen White
  57. Selected Bibliography
  58. Index
  59. About the Author