description: Through the figure of Broadway hack, Walter Winchell, this book builds a picture of the influence of the media on popular culture and history. Winchell made and broke people in the public eye and supported or disowned political and social issues, until rendered impotent by the advent of television.
language: English
title: Walter Winchell Gossip Power & the Culture of Celebrity
titlecomplete: Walter Winchell Gossip Power & the Culture of Celebrity
genres: History, World War II, Biography Memoir, Biography, Journalism, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 204
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Humanity Press/prometheus Bk