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The lake, the farmer and the dentist -- Creating a newspaper colony -- The genesis of the alliance -- Closing in on the deal -- The early colonies and the promotional articles -- The later colonies and the display ads -- The economic aftermath -- Hybrids and clones -- William Randolph Hearst --...

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"A higher education History primary source textbook that embraces an argument based model for teaching history. It is part of the Debating American History series, and covers mass consumer culture in the 1920s."