| The Life of Kings: The Baltimore Sun and the Golden Age of the American Newspaper Contributor(s): Hill, Frederic B. (Editor), Broening, Stephens (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1538122162 ISBN-13: 9781538122167 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $28.71 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - History | United States - State & Local - General - Political Science | Commentary & Opinion |
| Dewey: 071.526 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 322 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - Maryland - Locality - Baltimore, Maryland |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In an age when local daily papers with formerly robust reporting are cutting sections and even closing their doors, the contributors to The Life of Kings celebrate the heyday of one such paper, the Baltimore Sun, when it set the agenda for Baltimore, was a force in Washington, and extended its reach around the globe. Contributors like David Simon, creator of HBO's The Wire, and renowned political cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher (better known as KAL), tell what it was like to work in what may have been the last golden age of American newspapers -- when journalism still seemed like "the life of kings" that H.L. Mencken so cheerfully remembered. The writers in this volume recall the standards that made the Sun and other fine independent newspapers a bulwark of civic life for so long. Their contributions affirm that the core principles they followed are no less imperative for the new forms of journalism: a strong sense of the public interest in whose name they were acting, a reverence for accuracy, and an obligation to keep faith with the reader. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hill, Frederic B.: - Frederic B. Hill was a reporter, correspondent and editorial writer for The Baltimore Sun from 1965 to 1985, including tours in London and Paris, covering Europe and southern Africa. After two years as foreign affairs director for Sen. Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., he joined the State Department in 1986 and established the Office of Special Programs, which conducted policy planning exercises and roundtable discussions on political/military, economic, and global issues. A native of Maine and graduate of Bowdoin College, he and his wife Marguerite live in Arrowsic, Maine and Baltimore, Maryland. He serves on the board of directors of Maine's First Ship, a non-profit organization building a reconstruction of Virginia, one of the first ships built in America at Popham Beach in 1608. William Donnell Crooker, one of the principal figures in "Ships, Swindlers, and Scalded Hogs," was his great-great grandfather. |