Creating the College Man:

American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood, 1890-1915 (Studies in American Thought and Culture)

by Daniel A. Clark

University of Wisconsin Press

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Magazines were the first national news medium. They arrived before the radio and newsreels, backed by techniques and technologies (mass advertising, photo engraving, the rotary press) that spread a sensational brand of reporting that challenged governments, put pressure on trusts, and stimulated reform. Daniel A. Clark takes up an aspect of this story in Creating the College Man, an engaging contribution to the history of

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