TY  - BOOK
AU  - Welky,David
TI  - Everything was better in America: print culture in the Great Depression 
T2  - The history of communication
SN  - 9780252092817
AV  - PN4867 .E947 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - American newspapers
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - American periodicals
KW  - Publishers and publishing
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: "A time not to rock the boat" --; Part One: Newspapers --; The Press encounters the New Deal --; Kidnapping America's child --; Olympic feats of Americanism --; The Gumps: America's comic-strip family --; Part Two: Magazines --; How to slant a magazine --; Life, the war, and everything --; Defining womanhood in the Ladies' Home Journal --; Patriot number one, the man of steel --; Part Three: Books --; Mainstreaming the book industry --; Finding security in best sellers --; Ellery Queen restores order --; Gone with the wind, but not forgotten --; Conclusion: "Everything was better in America."; 2; b
N2  - As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, Welky offers this study of how mainstream culture shaped and disseminated a message affirming conservative middle-class values and assuring its readers that holding to these values would get them through hard times. Through analysis of the era's most popular newspaper stories, magazines, and books, Welky examines how voices both outside and within the media debated the purposes of literature and the meaning of cultural literacy in a mass democracy
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