"What is present are important looks at the French home front (chapter 2), the role of doctors and hospitals behind the front lines (chapters 4 and 7), morale among wounded soldiers (chapter 6), Belgian exiles (chapter 7), women war workers (chapter 9), troop convoys across the Atlantic (chapter 9), even a bird's-eye view of the battlefield in an observation balloon (chapter 3). . . . The value in Dubbs and Edy's work is in its tracing the story of how professional writers saw the war as it developed and how these writers adapted their previous literary expertise to a new type of conflict, from American observation to participation and back home again."--H-War, H-Net Reviews
"Dubbs and Edy's division of the Post's narrative into four phases (the early war, the static middle years, America's arrival at the front, the war's aftermath) resolves much complexity without making the result simplistic. The book's organization works extremely well. . . . There are sharp insights everywhere in the book."--Home Front Studies
"Dubbs and Edy show how Post correspondents placed themselves in the center of a war drama by writing first-person eyewitness accounts. With vivid imagery, striking dialogue, and engaging characters, these talented and trusted writers brought a faraway conflict home to loyal readers. . . . Letters between Lorimer and his correspondents, along with anecdotes pulled from the archives of Post writers, give a sense of the horror-and hope-writers felt as witnesses to the tragedy of war."--American Journalism
"A fascinating and seminal study. . . . The Weekly War is a singularly unique and very strongly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library 20th Century Journalism History and World War I collections, as well as college and university supplemental curriculum studies lists."--Midwest Book Review
"Most articles are quite memorable, with wonderful turns of phrase and imagery. They're occasionally filled with humor but always a sense of pathos. . . . All in all, this is a well-curated tome and a must-have for a lover of long-form writing from the era."--Roads to the Great War
"The Weekly War frames the war--or rather the presentation of the war to a reasonably wide swath of the American public--in a new way. Documenting the shift from the raw perception we see in the articles by Blythe, Cobb, and Rinehart to the more routinized perception once patriotic fervor had been stirred strikes me as the single most valuable contribution made by this book."--Tim Dayton, co-editor of A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War

"This will appeal to history and literature professors who talk about World War I--it will provide evidence we can use in teaching or analyzing public opinion about the war. It will also appeal to students researching the culture and literature of the 1920s."--Pearl James, author of The New Death: American Modernism and World War I and editor of Picture This! World War I Posters and Visual Culture

"From life aboard ship as Europe plunged toward Armageddon, through the horrors of trench warfare, to the Paris peace conference, The Weekly War contains not only adeptly chosen stories showcasing the Saturday Evening Post's reporting but also excellent essays that skillfully contextualize the magazine's output. A must-read for anyone interested in how Americans have consumed war."--Steven Casey, author of War Beat, Pacific: The American Media at War against Japan

"In a narrative with pace and substance, Chris Dubbs and Carolyn Edy treat us to what they rightly describe as the Saturday Evening Post's 'American time capsule of the Great War, ' replete with the authors' insights and the actual writings of the popular mystery writers, humorists, and theater critics who became war correspondents, as they appeared in the magazine's pages each week. As the stories made their way into the homes of the Post's legions of readers, they helped the nation fashion a view of what was happening 'over there.' What a riveting approach to telling us the story of World War I anew."--Brooke Kroeger, author of Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism