| Abstract: | TELEVISION: AN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE FORMATIVE YEARS by R. W. Burns (London: Institution of Electrical Engineers “History of Technology Series, No. 22,”; 1998 distribution in U.S. by IEEE Operations Center, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, N] 08855–1331]—$120.00, ISBN 0–85296–914–7, 661 pp., photos, diagrams, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, index) RADIO DIPLOMACY AND PROPAGANDA: THE BBC AND VOA IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, 1956–1964 by Gary D. Rawnsley (London: Macmillan/New York: St Martin's Press “Studies in Diplomacy,”; 1996—$59.95, ISBN 0–333–64943–5, 224 pp., notes, bibliography, index) WAR OF THE BLACK HEAVENS: THE BATTLES OF WESTERN BROADCASTING IN THE COLD WAR by Michael Nelson (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997—$29.95, ISBN 0–8156–0479–3, 277 pp., photos, chronology, notes, bibliography, index) PARTING THE CURTAIN: PROPAGANDA, CULTURE AND THE COLD WAR: 1945–1961 by Walter L. Hixson (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1997— $17.95, paper, ISBN 0–312–17680–5, 283 pp., photos, notes, index) SOUNDS OUT OF SILENCE: A LIFE OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL by James Mackay (Edinburgh, Scotland: Mainstream Publishing, 1997—£20.00 or about $36.00, ISBN 1–85158–833–7, 320 pp., photos, notes, index) ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE TELEPHONE by Edwin S. Grosvenor and Morgan Wesson (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997—$45.00, ISBN 0–8109–4005–1, 304 pp., photos some color], bibliography, index) GET ME A MURDER A DAY! A HISTORY OF MASS COMMUNICATION IN BRITAIN by Kevin Williams (London: Arnold/New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998—$59.95/19.95, ISBN 0–340–69158–1 hard, 0–340–61466–8 paper, 288 pp., end‐ notes, index) THE DECLINE AND FALL OF PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING by Michael Tracey (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998—$75.00/29.95, paper, ISBN 0–19–815925–0 hard, 0–19–815924–2 paper, 295 pp., notes, bibliography, index) 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRANSISTOR! (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 86 January 1998]—$20.00 individual copies available from IEEE Operations Center, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855–1331], ISSN 0018–9219,308 pp., photos, diagrams, references) STEPHEN CRANE, JOURNALISM AND THE MAKING OF MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE by Michael Robertson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997—$45.00/16.95, ISBN 0–231–10968–7 hard, 0–231–10969–5 paper, 253 pp., photos, index, notes) SINCE RECORDS BEGAN: EMI, THE FIRST 100 YEARS by Peter Martland (Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1997—$39.95, ISBN 0–57467–033–6, 359 pp., photos, bibliography, index) DEFINING VISIONS: TELEVISION AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE SINCE 1945 by Mary Ann Watson (Ft. Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace “American Since 1945,”; 1998—$22.50, paper, ISBN 0–15–503201–1, 303 pp., photos, bibliography, index) |
