Books by Robert W. Snyder

Some of the bravest actions of journalists are unknown, obscured by the passage of time, hidden by veils of anonymity or buried by systematic repression

This entertaining and enlightening book depicts the rise of popular culture in America by brilliantly recapturing the essence and commercial trappings of one of its most vital forms of entertainment-the vaudeville show. "A fascinating and highly readable social history...Snyder brilliantly illuminates the way city culture was made and worked in the lives of people at the turn of the century."-Thomas Bender. With a new preface by the author.

In the 1970s, when the South Bronx burned and the promise of New Deal New York and postwar America gave way to despair, the people of Washington Heights at the northern tip of Manhattan were increasingly vulnerable. The Heights had long been a neighborhood where generations of newcomers-Irish, Jewish, Greek, African American, Cuban, and Puerto...

A collection of stories about some of the bravest actions of journalists. David Copeland examines the trial of John Peter Zenger, and Graham Hodges unearths the story of David Ruggles, an African-American journalist and abolitionist. With a few exceptions, the stories told are unfamiliar.

1968 was a tumultous year for US politics, with issues of war, race, and protest being brought to the fore. This text looks at how these issues were reported by the media, and what journalism meant in 1968. It also gauges the distance and direction that news reporting has travelled since then.