KENT COOPER AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

by Kent Cooper ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

The career of Kent Cooper and his rise in the Associated Press is a great American success story. Under his vigorous and imaginative General Managership, the AP became the world's largest and most influential gatherer and disseminator of news and the personalities that made events ""news"". Today the AP is read (in this country alone) by over 150 million people. Mr. Cooper first went to work for the rival UP, but shortly he turned his vast administrative talents to the AP. His reminiscences are often as good as the best human interest copy humming off the AP wires. Names of world leaders, theatrical figures, society lions and just names in the news crowd the pages. Throughout Mr. Cooper finds the drama inherent in their doings. Since AP switched from telegraph to leased wires, Mr. Cooper points out, it has become one of the vital factors in widening America's understanding of the world and vice-versa; indeed a well-informed public has helped make America the truly intelligent colossus of the Twentieth Century. Readable, often exciting when it describes the activities of the great press tycoons, the book is a must for journalism students, admirers of the ways and means of really Big Business and for students of the American scene. Should do well in the larger libraries and in book-stores in large cities and near schools of journalism.

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Publisher: Random House

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1959

Categories: NONFICTION