Woodrow Wilson and the Press

Prelude to the Presidency

J. Startt

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2004
• ISBN:
  9781403981899
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Esteemed journalism historian James Startt has crafted an intriguing case study of the relationship between political leadership and the mass media during its early days, using the political ascendancy of Woodrow Wilson as its focus. Wilson's emergence as a major political figure coincided with the arrival of a real mass media and a more independent, less partisan style of political coverage. While most Nineteenth-century presidents remained aloof from the press, Wilson understood it could no longer be ignored: 'The public man who fights the daily press won't be a public man very long'.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Early Encounters with Journalism
• Chapter 2 The President of Princeton and the Press, 1902–10
• Chapter 3 Advent of a Public Statesman, 1906–10
• Chapter 4 Wilson’s Gubernatorial Campaign and the Press
• Chapter 5 Governor Wilson and the Press, 1910–11
• Chapter 6 The Wilson Presidential Movement: Publicity and Opposition
• Chapter 7 The Press and Wilson’s Preconvention Campaign
• Chapter 8 Wilson and the Press at the Democratic Convention and Afterward
• Chapter 9 Wilson’s Election Campaign of 1912 and the Press
• Chapter 10 On the Threshold of the White House
• Key to Abbreviations in Notes
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index