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In The Influencing Machine, NPR’s “On the Media” co-host Brooke Gladstone uses playful cartoon panels to trace the power of media over the past 2,000 years. From the early newspapers of Caesar’s Rome to the penny press that fueled the American Revolution, and all the way to the modern age of broadcast journalism and mass media, Gladstone shows how the press, radio, and print have constantly influenced public opinion and culture.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels/Graphic Memoir
Authors: Brooke Gladstone
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