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1 online resource |
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Sunbelt Studies |
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Sunbelt studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Jesse Helm's politics of pious incitement -- "There is another way": free enterprise, the mainstream media, and southern realignment in the 1950s -- "The voice of free enterprise": a conservative commentator and news director -- "An uncommon number of moral degenerates": the conservative alternative and the fairness doctrine -- Backlash: the great society, Vietnam, and conservative solutions -- Turning off turn-on: Helms as a TV executive in the 1960s -- The dawn of a conservative era: gaining power, 1968 to 1972 -- Epilogue: mainstreaming the fringe |
| Summary |
An exploration of how Jesse Helms pioneered the attack on the liberal media while building a new form of southern conservativism, centering on his time as executive vice president of WRAL-TV in Raleigh |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Helms, Jesse -- Political and social views
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Helms, Jesse |
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- History
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
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Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States
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Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Television broadcasting of news -- Objectivity -- United States
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Legislators -- United States -- Biography
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Conservatism
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Legislators
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Mass media -- Political aspects
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Political and social views
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Politics and government
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Television broadcasting of news -- Objectivity
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United States -- Politics and government.
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United States
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813048987 |
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0813048982 |
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0813050138 |
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9780813050133 |
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