Author: Carolyn Edy
CAROLYN EDY is the author of The Woman Correspondent, the U.S. Military, and the Press, 1846–1947, which was a finalist for the American Journalism Historians Association’s Best Journalism History Book award in 2018. She lives in Boone, North Carolina, where she is an associate professor of journalism at Appalachian State University.
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The Weekly War: How the Saturday Evening Post Reported World War I
Published: April, 2023 Pages: 336 Features: 32 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index.
An elite team of reporters brought the Great War home each week to ten million readers of The Saturday Evening Post. As America’s largest circulation magazine, the Post hired the nation’s best-known and best-paid writers to cover World War I. The Weekly War provides a history of the unique record Post storytellers created of World War I, the distinct imprint the Post made on the field of war reporting, and the ways in which Americans witnessed their first world war. The Weekly War includes representative articles from across the span of the conflict, and Chris Dubbs and Carolyn Edy complement these works with essays about the history and significance of the magazine, the war, and the writers. more... about The Weekly War: How the Saturday Evening Post Reported World War I
- Honorable Mention, 2023 Tomlinson Book Prize