Messengers of the Right
Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics
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Narrated by:
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Maria Rose
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Written by:
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Nicole Hemmer
About this listen
From Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck and Matt Drudge, Americans are accustomed to thinking of right-wing media as integral to contemporary conservatism. But today's well-known personalities make up the second generation of broadcasting and publishing activists. Messengers of the Right tells the story of the little-known first generation.
Beginning in the late 1940s, activists working in media emerged as leaders of the American conservative movement. They not only started an array of enterprises - publishing houses, radio programs, magazines, book clubs, television shows - they also built the movement. While these media activists disagreed profoundly on tactics and strategy, they shared a belief that political change stemmed not just from ideas but from spreading those ideas through openly ideological communications channels.
In Messengers of the Right, Nicole Hemmer explains how conservative media became the institutional and organizational nexus of the conservative movement, transforming audiences into activists and activists into a reliable voting base. Messengers of the Right follows broadcaster Clarence Manion, book publisher Henry Regnery, and magazine publisher William Rusher as they evolved from frustrated outsiders in search of a platform into leaders of one of the most significant and successful political movements of the 20th century.
The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press.
©2016 University of Pennsylvania Press (P)2018 Redwood AudiobooksWhat the critics say
"Joins the must-read list for any student of the history of conservatism, the history of modern media, or indeed the history of the polarized political culture in which we find ourselves today." (David Greenberg, author of Republic of Spin)
"Read Nicole Hemmer's superb new book, and you'll never see 'liberal mainstream media' in the same way again. ...This is political history - and American history - at its finest." (Margaret O'Mara, University of Washington)
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- MyPublicName
- 2019-05-02
Good info
I love Nicole Hemmer's podcast, Past Present and I also follow her on Twitter, she's smart and thoughtful historian. This book seems to me to be for academics and other historians, not so accessible to the layperson. I've read many books on US history in the last few years so I got some of the context that is missing here. I felt her assertion that media was "liberal" before the right infiltrated it sort of odd though. It was fact based, though, for sure, if that's what she meant? Or, she's framing it like the right would? Not sure. I did enjoy the history, it's fascinating and important to know.
The narration though, so odd. She has slightly more emotion and only slightly better pronunciation than Siri. I found the way she reads the words, her affectation and awkward stiltedness so off putting.
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- Hal Doran
- 2024-02-05
Useful Info - So-So Read
Very useful and detailed information about the beginnings and influence of modern American right-wing media.
A bit overly academic in tone and occasionally repetitious in places, but overall a good book. Gives the principal participants covered a fair and balanced accounting, but not a completely uncritical one.
The reading was marred somewhat by the narrator's seeming inability to correctly pronounce many words, often personal names, but not restricted to those. Presumably. the narrator or the audio book producer would have sorted those out in the final version of the recording, but this is not the case.
Just two examples, from opposite sites of the political spectrum:
Noh-A-Ehm Chomsky (Noam Chomsky)
Richard Vig-Wary (Richard Viguerie)
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