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The Race Beat

The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)...

Gene Roberts Hank Klibanoff

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English
Vintage
04 September 2007
Winner of the 2006 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY. A sweeping narrative of how the press covered, and ultimately came to influence the great Civil Rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. First time in paperback.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER . An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press-and the journalists responsible for them-profoundly changed the nation's thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and '60s.

Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen-black and white-revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings that compelled its citizens to act. Meticulously researched and vividly rendered, The Race Beat is an extraordinary account of one of the most calamitous periods in our nation's history, as told by those who covered it.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 201mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 29mm
Weight:   437g
ISBN:   9780679735656
ISBN 10:   0679735658
Pages:   518
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

A masterpiece . . . The Race Beat is a riveting piece of social history that balances both its subjects brilliantly . . . There has never been a better study of the importance of a free press. -The Philadelphia Inquirer Fascinating. . . . Just when you think there's nothing left to say about the civil rights movement, [The Race Beat] pulls you back in. -The Los Angeles Times The Race Beat has good characters, good yarns and good thinking. Just as important, though, it's got a good heart. -Newsweek Research for The Race Beat is meticulous, uncovering many facts that have gone unreported in other books about the movement . . . proves a necessary addition to anyone interested in learning more about the movement and the journalists whose work helped transform the South and, indeed, the nation. -Chicago Sun-Times


  • Winner of Goldsmith Book Prize 2007
  • Winner of Pulitzer Prize (History) 2007
  • Winner of Pulitzer Prize 2007

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