Political History of Journalism

"At last! A truly intelligent and well-written book on this most elusive subject ? what, indeed, is at the heart of that matter we call journalism?"
Norman Mailer

"An immensely thoughtful book (that) brilliantly achieves the author's ambition to 'have meaning for those who practise journalism or wish to do so'."
Tim Luckhurst, Times Higher Education

"Its engagement with journalism as a developing set of practices is very refreshing."
Australian Journalism Review

"This is a stimulating and deeply intelligent book, full of striking insights into landmarks in the journalistic history of Britain, France, and the US. A Political History of Journalism is the most sophisticated inquiry I know into the complexity of a serious journalist's two enduring problems: how to find a relation to events in which they are not flattened into false familiarity, and a relation to readers in which they are not seduced into false consensus."
Todd Gitlin, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University

"Géraldine Muhlmann's A Political History of Journalism is a fascinating and carefully argued account of how journalism can create and challenge democratic community. It is a highly original contribution to the history of journalism and to the study of the processes that constitute the public sphere."
Daniel C. Hallin, University of California, San Diego