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The Southern Country Editor
First published in 1948, The Southern Country Editor is a study of the country press from the time of the Civil War to the 1930s. More than a mere account of the country newspaper, it is a picture of eighty years of Southern life and thought.
The country weekly played an enormously important role in shaping rural Southern opinion. Editors assumed responsibility as community spokesmen. The South had special problems with which country editors had to deal that were not common elsewhere: sharecropping, the racial issue, and a predominantly one-party political system. The editorials and news stories reflected attitudes and recorded actions that reveal a great deal about Southern rural society.
By the 1940s, when Clark was researching and writing The Southern Country Editor, the South was undergoing a great economic and social transition. It was rapidly losing its farm and rural character as industrialization and urbanization advanced throughout the region. The Southern Country Editor provides one of the clearest windows through which modern readers can catch a realistic glimpse of the interests, excitements, hopes, and attitudes of Southern farm and small-town people in the days before modernization of the South. In his perceptive examination of the role and influence of the country editor, Thomas D. Clark has made a significant contribution to the institutional history of the South. The bibliography he has provided includes 183 newspapers, published in towns that stretched from North Carolina to Texas.
The country weekly played an enormously important role in shaping rural Southern opinion. Editors assumed responsibility as community spokesmen. The South had special problems with which country editors had to deal that were not common elsewhere: sharecropping, the racial issue, and a predominantly one-party political system. The editorials and news stories reflected attitudes and recorded actions that reveal a great deal about Southern rural society.
By the 1940s, when Clark was researching and writing The Southern Country Editor, the South was undergoing a great economic and social transition. It was rapidly losing its farm and rural character as industrialization and urbanization advanced throughout the region. The Southern Country Editor provides one of the clearest windows through which modern readers can catch a realistic glimpse of the interests, excitements, hopes, and attitudes of Southern farm and small-town people in the days before modernization of the South. In his perceptive examination of the role and influence of the country editor, Thomas D. Clark has made a significant contribution to the institutional history of the South. The bibliography he has provided includes 183 newspapers, published in towns that stretched from North Carolina to Texas.
382 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1991
About the author
Thomas D. Clark
90 books1 followerThomas Dionysius Clark (July 14, 1903 – June 28, 2005) was an American historian. Clark saved from destruction a large portion of Kentucky's printed history, which later became a core body of documents in the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Often referred to as the "Dean of Historians" Clark is best known for his 1937 work, A History of Kentucky. Clark was named Historian Laureate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1991.
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