A Journalist's Diplomatic Mission: Ray Stannard Baker's World War I Diary - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0807144231 ISBN 13 : 9780807144237

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2012

Synopsis

At the height of World War I, in the winter of 1917--1918, one of the Progressive era's most successful muckracking journalists, Ray Stannard Baker (1870--1946), set out on a special mission to Europe on behalf of the Wilson administration. While posing as a foreign correspondent for the New Republic and the New York World, Baker assessed public opinion in Europe about the war and postwar settlement. American officials in the White House and State Department held Baker's wide-ranging, trenchant reports in high regard. After the war, Baker remained in government service as the president's press secretary at the Paris Peace Conference, where the Allied victors dictated the peace terms to the defeated Central Powers. Baker's position gave him an extraordinary vantage point from which to view history in the making. He kept a voluminous diary of his service to the president, beginning with his voyage to Europe and lasting through his time as press secretary. Unlike Baker's published books about Wilson, leavened by much reflection, his diary allows modern readers unfiltered impressions of key moments in history by a thoughtful inside observer.
Published here for the first time, this long-neglected source includes an introduction by John Maxwell Hamilton and Robert Mann that places Baker and his diary into historical context.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

John Maxwell Hamilton, a former journalist and government official, is the Hopkins P. Breazeale LSU Foundation Professor of Journalism in the Manship School of Mass Communication at LSU and a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He has authored or edited many books, including Journalism's Roving Eye and Manipulating the Masses, both of which won the Goldsmith Book Prize.

Robert Mann is the author of ten books on U.S. and Louisiana political history. He was a senior aide to US senators Russell Long and John Breaux and Louisiana governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco. He served on the faculty of LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication for eighteen years before retiring in 2024. He lives in Baton Rouge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807144231
• ISBN 13: 9780807144237
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 504
• Éditeur: Hamilton John Maxwell, Mann Robert
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible