Twentieth-Century Tales: Newsmagazines and American Memory

Journalism and Communication Monographs

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 120-155

  Kitch, Carolyn ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0010398207     PISSN: 15226379     EISSN: 21614342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/152263799900100203     Document Type: Article

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