From admiration to confrontation: six decades of American reporting about China

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Relatively few American reporters have ever been assigned to cover China and an evaluation of the six accounts these reporters wrote over a 60-year period since 1936 indicates that they faced innumerable challenges. These valuable journalistic stories of China include Edgar Snow's book 'Red Star Over China,' Theodore H. White's/Annalee Jacoby's volume 'Thunder Out of China,' Snow's 'The Other Side of the River,' Fox Butterfield's 'Alive in the Bitter Sea,' Nicholas Kristof's/Sheryl WuDunn's 'China Wakes' and Orville Schell's 'Mandate of Heaven.'

China, Bibliography

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Good copy: George Wallace understood that media thrived on confrontation

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Few television and print journalists gave George Wallace much credence as a legitimate presidential candidate when the fiery politician launched his third-party campaign for the presidency in 1967. Yet Wallace had, by 1968, forced the media to take notice by winning public support against all odds. The politician understood only too well that media thrived on confrontation and came perilously close to the presidency were it not for his disastrous error of unveiling his vice-presidential candidate on national television.

Presidential candidates, Wallace, George C.

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Painful limits

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Lyndon B. Johnson embodied the image of the American as a decent, idealistic race with a 'can do' attitude who were living in an 'American Century' but neither knew nor had a sense of life's limits. In truth, Johnson was really a good man who wanted to fix the ills of the country, heal its poor and protect democracy. However, he only knew the old American ways and, in the end, was overwhelmed and driven out of office.

Ex-presidents, Johnson, Lyndon B.

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