Self-exposure
Subtitle: human-interest journalism and the emergence of celebrity in America, 1890-1940
Language: eng
Format: Unknown Binding
ISBN-13: 9780807862216
Subjects: Language
First sentence: Published in 1959 to considerable fanfare, Earl Blackwell's and Cleveland Amory's International Celebrity Register, a massive volume offering readers capsule biographies of 2,200 public figures, arrived on the American cultural scene with an aura of importance that was not uncommon among works published during the 1950s.