| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920–1940. By Douglas B. Craig. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xx, 362 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-6439-9.)

Douglas B. Craig, a senior lecturer in history at the Australian National University, charts the ideologically contested but institutionally smooth triumph of commercial radio in interwar American political culture. Craig provides an impressively researched and useful study of how key players within the political and commercial arenas debated, regulated, and utilized—for their specific interests—commercial radio as a medium. He draws on a broad range of archival records to illustrate the ideological underpinnings of the commercial, political, and regulatory nexus he develops, including the broadcast networks (especially NBC), Congress, the federal regulatory commissions governing radio (the Federal Radio Commission, FRC, then the Federal Communications Commission, FCC), the Republican and Democratic national committees, the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations, and the National Association of Broadcasting. . . .

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