Unsilent Revolution or Morocco

Unsilent Revolution: Television News and American Public Life, 1948-1991

Author: Robert Donovan

Unsilent Revolution is the story of the impact television news has had on politics, current events and the print media. Looking at major events over the past four decades, this work is an episodic history of the rise and ascendency of television news. Donovan and Scherer have used several unpublished journalists' accounts in this book, which differs from other studies in that it synthesizes scholarly sources along with first-hand experiences. Robert J. Donovan was chief of the Washington bureau of the New York Herald Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. He is currently a writer in Washington, D.C. Ray Scherer was a member of the NBC News Washington staff when its television broadcasts began in
1947. He was NBC's White House correspondent during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations and, later, NBC London correspondent.

Library Journal

This is a thoroughly researched, well-written, yet disappointing volume. Its theme is that the advent of TV news changed America's social fabric, altered the way we elect presidents, destroyed major newspapers and magazines, while modifying the way all surviving publications now present the news. TV news, we are told, has become a multiarmed monster of influence embracing all the world. That's true, but such conclusions are hardly revelatory. Donovan (formerly New York Herald Tribune / Los Angeles Times ) and Scherer (ex-NBC News) have quoted dozens of books and articles reaching the same conclusion but have added little new of their own. Recommended only as an updated compilation.-- Chet Hagan, Berks Cty. P.L. System, Pa.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
I	Twelve Episodes
1	Police dogs, firehoses, and television cameras: shockwaves from the south	3
2	Exit Joe McCarthy	23
3	Television news and the ups and downs of Richard Nixon: the 1960 election	35
4	Television's march on Cape Canaveral	47
5	Television's supreme hour: the Kennedy funeral	58
6	In the eye of the storm: television news and the urban riots	71
7	Vietnam, 1965-1967	79
8	Vietnam, 1968-1975	94
9	Nixon's presidency: a difficult time for television news and the press	108
10	Nixon in China and Watergate	128
11	Infuriating pictures from Iran: television news, Jimmy Carter, and the Iranian hostage crisis	140
12	The call: relief for the Ethiopian famine, 1984	153
II	Ongoing Impact
13	The White House in the television age	163
14	The television president: Reagan on prime time	177
15	The television occupation of Capitol Hill	196
16	From Dulles to Gorbachev: diplomacy and terrorism in the television age	204
17	Television and the transformation of American politics, 1952-1984	218
18	1988	240
19	Profound change in print journalism: the invasion by television news	257
20	Newspapers in the age of television	270
21	Television's intrusion in the press box	283
22	Two different mediums: newspapers and television news	292
23	Conclusion: Tiananmen Square, the Berlin Wall, the Persian Gulf War, and the Russian coup	308
	Notes	319
	Index	347

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Morocco: Globalization and Islam in the North African World

Author: Shana Cohen

Cohen and Jaidi, trace the development of contemporary Morocco in the Islamic world of North Africa, which is currently at the forefront of the clash between Western-style development and the politicized Islam that now pervades the Arab world. By applying globalization theory to detailed accounts of everyday life in an Arab society, the book is uniquely suited to students. Morocco in particular is a good place to look at this extremely important confrontation. It is among the most liberalized Islamic states, yet it is also in the midst of a revival of politicized Islam, which has its own globalizing agenda. The authors detail how this clash pervades Moroccan culture and society, and what it can tell us about the effects of globalization on the Arab world. Morocco is extremely close to the West in terms of physical proximity, and it is a favored spot for Western tourists. Yet its closest neighbors in social terms are Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia, all of which have directly experienced the effects of politicized Islam in the quarter century.
Books in this series look at how nations and regions across the world are navigating the tumultuous currents of globalization. Concise, descriptive, interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed, they serve as ideal introductions to the peoples and places of our increasingly globalized world.