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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David Paul Nord. Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers. (The History of Communication.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 293. $29.95.

David Paul Nord's recent book is more than a collection of scholarly essays spanning the career of a well-regarded historian of American journalism and mass communication. It is a volume that brings together some of the most insightful and cogent statements about the meaning and significance of news, and the institutions that produce the news, to American history. The twelve essays in this volume all have been published previously, most of them appearing in journals in the fields of journalism and communication, American history, and American studies. Appearing together, however, the essays form something greater than the sum of the several parts. As Nord points out in his introduction, the essays explore facets of the concept of "public communities" in America history. In them Nord examines the role journalism played in shaping American community life and community consciousness. Historians have noted how Americans seem to "seek community in the public sphere" (p. 2). Nord has identified American journalism, particularly the daily and weekly newspaper, as a key public sphere where community "happens." . . .

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