Front-Page Pittsburgh: Two Hundred Years of the Post-Gazette

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Price
$50.00  $46.50
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Publish Date
Pages
332
Dimensions
7.34 X 10.24 X 1.23 inches | 2.06 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780822942481

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About the Author
Clarke M. Thomas, was a combat infantryman in World War II, spent forty-three years as a newspaperman in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania. In 1997 he received the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania President's Award "in recognition of outstanding career achievement and contributions to Western Pennsylvania journalism."
Reviews
A wonderful book! Enjoyable, informative, and well written. It gives readers the inside story about the peculiar merger of the Post and the Gazette in the 1920s and the incredible account of the survival of the Post-Gazette rather than the Press during the 1990s.-- "Van Beck Hall, University of Pittsburgh"
Details the paper's history from its start in 1786 through wars, publishers, changing politics, journalistic evolutions, suffrage, and a strike that held a mirror to Pittsburgh. We realize, through this book, how the written news acts as a constant to the readers of a sometimes uncertain region. . . . Take the insider journey, you'll find a renewed sense of respect for the paper that made the trip.-- "Carol Lee Espy, WQED-TV"
Lively and readable. . . . It will be interesting to see the next chapter of Pittsburgh's newspaper history unfold. With luck, we'll have a chronicler as able as Thomas to write the final draft.-- "Pittsburgh City Paper"