Introduction -- Don't Give the Public What It Wants; Give the Public What it Needs -- Radio Is Good for You! The Rise of Educational Radio -- Carnegie's Lemon? The Birth of NPR -- Washington Verus The Sticks -- Left, Right, or Always Establishment? The Bias Issue, -- Newt [Gingrich] Cometh --...

This book presents an absorbing study of how educational radio, which originated to broadcast weather forecasts to farmers, has become what the Pew Center calls the most trusted source of news for American liberals and a regular in the rogue's gallery of election-year conservative targets. The...

part Part One. A New Deal or a New Dole?: Artists, Writers, and Federal One -- chapter A New Dealer, A New Deck -- chapter The Federal Writers’ Project -- chapter Art, Music, and Historical Records -- chapter Federal Theatre Project -- chapter Reds Under Beds, or Trodding Boards? -- chapter A...