True Story: How A Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media

Focusing on Bernarr Macfadden, a bodybuilder turned publishing mogul, Shanon Fitzpatrick charts the rise and export of US mass media and consumer culture. Macfadden's magazines--featuring fitness tips, celebrity gossip, and sensational "true" stories--created an enduring editorial template and powered worldwide demand for interactive American media.

• | Author: Shanon Fitzpatrick
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 19, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674268016
• | ISBN-13: 9780674268012