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Loading... Hello, Everybody!: The Dawn of American Radio (2008)by Anthony Rudel
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I have a strong interest in early/Old Time radio and was pleased to find this at my local used bookstore. It has a nice wide scope, spotlighting early radio in relation to community, religion, sports, communication, etc. Some spotlight is given to major players of the day, Herbert Hoover, Graham McNamee, Merlin Aylesworth, and so on yet for all the highlights and examples, the book never truly feels passionate about its subject. While not dry or dull, Hello Everybody! could have done more, I feel, to champion why this early era rated a book and why to so many, even those not born at the time, events and people from then are worthy of remembering. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Long before the internet, another young technology was transformed--with help from a colorful collection of eccentrics and visionaries--into a mass medium with the power to connect millions of people. When amateur enthusiasts began sending fuzzy signals from their garages and rooftops, radio broadcasting was born. Sensing the medium's potential, snake-oil salesmen and preachers took to the air, at once setting early standards for radio programming and making bedlam of the airwaves. Into the chaos stepped a young secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover, whose passion for organization guided the technology's growth. When a charismatic bandleader named Rudy Vallee created the first on-air variety show and America elected its first true radio president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, radio had arrived. With clarity, humor, and an eye for outsized characters forgotten by polite history, Anthony Rudel tells the story of the boisterous years when radio took its place in the nation's living room and forever changed American politics, journalism, and entertainment. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)384.5409730904Social sciences Commerce, Communications, Transportation Telecommunications (Telegraph, Internet, Cables, Broadcasting, Telephones, Movies) Broadcasting Radio broadcasting Standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biographyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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