Television's Conquest of America in the Fifties
by
Eric Burns
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
When the first television was demonstrated in 1927, a headline in The New York Times read, “Like a Photo Come to Life.” It was a momentous occasion. But the power of television wasn’t fully harnessed until the 1950s, when the medium was, as Eric Burns says, “At its most preoccupying, its most...