My Pilgrim's Progress

Media Studies, 1950-1998

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In My Pilgrim's Progress, George W. S. Trow gives us a brilliantly original and provocative look at what's happened to America in our time -- a guided tour of the media, the politics, and the personalities of the last half-century by one of our most persuasive social critics.

Trow takes 1950 as the year the Old World gave way to the New: Winston Churchill had just been named The Man of the Half-Century by Time magazine; George Bernard Shaw was still alive, and so was William Randolph Hearst. But before the next half-decade was out, the world represented by these powerful old men had disappeared.
George W. S. Trow lives in Columbia Country, New York and Texas. View titles by George W.S. Trow
"As good as anything written about our journey out of the '50s." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

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In My Pilgrim's Progress, George W. S. Trow gives us a brilliantly original and provocative look at what's happened to America in our time -- a guided tour of the media, the politics, and the personalities of the last half-century by one of our most persuasive social critics.

Trow takes 1950 as the year the Old World gave way to the New: Winston Churchill had just been named The Man of the Half-Century by Time magazine; George Bernard Shaw was still alive, and so was William Randolph Hearst. But before the next half-decade was out, the world represented by these powerful old men had disappeared.

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George W. S. Trow lives in Columbia Country, New York and Texas. View titles by George W.S. Trow

Praise

"As good as anything written about our journey out of the '50s." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

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