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SUMMARY:Polarizing America: Chicago 1968
DESCRIPTION:Featured writer: Heather Hendershot; Moderator: Kevin Boyle. Presented by the Newberry Library.\nMedia historian Heather Hendershot discusses how media coverage of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago shattered Americans’ faith in the media, leading to where we are now…and where we go from here.\nBook signing times (all signings take place in the Winter Garden, 9th Floor)\n🖊️Heather Hendershot: 2:30 – 2:50\nFULL SCHEDULE ( https://americanwritersmuseum.org/american-writers-festival/schedule/ )\nAbout the writers:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKEVIN BOYLE is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. Years ago, he stumbled across an obscure photo of a Chicago neighborhood celebrating the Fourth of July 1961. From that image – and the story it tells – he’s built The Shattering, his new history of the 1960s. His previous book, Arc of Justice, won the National Book Award for non-fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He’s also the author of The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1948-1968 and co-author of Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Free Press, and other newspapers and magazines. He and his wife, Victoria Getis, now live in Evanston, IL with their manic one-year old Australian shepherd and, from time to time, with their marvelous daughters, Abby and Nan.\nHEATHER HENDERSHOT is the Cardiss Collins Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism at Northwestern University. Her most recent books are When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America and Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks by these writers:\nVIEW FESTIVAL READING LIST\n\nThe Shattering: America in the 1960s by Kevin Boyle\nFrom the National Book Award winner, a masterful history of the decade whose conflicts shattered America’s postwar order and divide us still.\n\nWhen the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America by Heather Hendershot\nA riveting, blow-by-blow account of how the network broadcasts of the 1968 Democratic convention shattered faith in American media.\n\n
URL:https://americanwritersmuseum.org/program-calendar/american-writers-festival-polarizing-america/
CATEGORIES:American Writers Festival,History & Bio,Journalism,Politics
LOCATION:Harold Washington Library Center
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