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- ISBN 9780313266386
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 11 Dec 1989
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Until telegraph lines spanned the continent in the 1860s, the post office and the press worked together as the most important mechanism for distributing news and public information. Public policy linked these complementary communication agencies; the post office provided free and low-cost news-gathering services for the press as well as subsidized delivery of publications to readers. News in the Mail charts the relationship between the press and post office from colonial times through the Civil War. The book explains why the federal government underwrote the circulation of printed matter and how the postal policies governing public information reflected the cultural tensions of the early and mid-nineteenth century.
News in the Mail not only looks at the government's role in disseminating news and promoting communication, but also examines the structure and implications of the early U.S. communication system. This book is a valuable source for those interested in journalism, communications history, the history of federal policies and operations, postal history, and nineteenth-century American social history.
RICHARD B. KIELBOWICZ is an Assistant Professor of Communications at the University of Washington. He has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution and has served as a consultant on the history of communication policies for government and business. His articles have appeared in Administrative Law Review, Journalism Quarterly, Journal of the Early Republic, Canadian Review of American Studies, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, among other publications.
