nikkigee81's review against another edition
4.0
This is not a very large book, as there are two other volumes that follow after it. However, it took me a little time to read because there is just so much information. Mr. Barnouw takes you through the very first proto-wireless experiments done by Marconi through the inauguration of FDR and his fireside chats. In between, you have mergers between GE, Westinghouse, and AT&T; the origin stories of NBC and CBS; and the sudden explosion of advertising on a medium that originally claimed that would never happen.
This book is mostly about radio, but television, a mere fetus in this era, is slowly reaching its birth. Footnotes abound, but I appreciated that they were on the page so I didn't have to keep two bookmarks on hand and flip back and forth.
This book is mostly about radio, but television, a mere fetus in this era, is slowly reaching its birth. Footnotes abound, but I appreciated that they were on the page so I didn't have to keep two bookmarks on hand and flip back and forth.
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