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100 1 _aFitzpatrick, Shanon,
245 1 0 _aTrue story :
_bhow a pulp empire remade mass media /
_cShanon Fitzpatrick.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c2022.
300 _a312Pages
_bInclude pictures
505 0 _aComing of Age During Decades of Fitness in the American Midwest -- The Transatlantic Birth of the Physical Culture Publishing Company -- Circulating Physiques in an Age of Empire and Migration -- Building Up Consumers and Citizens through the Great War -- The Sensational Rise of Macfadden Publications, Inc. -- The Great Depression and the Macfadden Market -- International Issues, Foreign Editions, and the Global Popular -- From the World of Tomorrow to the American Century -- Epilogue: Pulp Empire Today.
520 _a"Focusing on Bernarr Macfadden, a bodybuilder turned publishing mogul, Shanon Fitzpatrick charts the rise and export of US mass media and consumer culture. Macfadden's magazines-featuring fitness tips, celebrity gossip, and sensational "true" stories-created an enduring editorial template and powered worldwide demand for interactive American media"--
650 0 _aSensationalism in journalism
650 0 _aMass media
650 0 _aPulp literature, American
650 0 _aHealth in mass media
650 0 _aPhysical fitness
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