Shadow of the New Deal

By Josh Shepperd,

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Winner of the 2024 BEA Book Award Runner-up in the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Runner-up for the AJHA Book of the Year (American Journalism Historians Association).

Despite uncertain beginnings, public broadcasting emerged as a noncommercial media industry that transformed American culture.…

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If you love NPR as much as I do, then this is the book for you! Shepperd tells the fascinating story of how public radio came into being in the US during the mid-twentieth century–and how public radio played a crucial role in defining Americans’ expectations about what they have the right to know about their government’s activities.

If you want to make sense of the historical relationship between democracy and data, then this is the book for you! 

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