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On floods and photo ops : how Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush exploited catastrophes
- Title
- On floods and photo ops : how Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush exploited catastrophes / Paul Martin Lester.
- Author
- Lester, Paul Martin.
- Publication
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 260 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 > In mass media > Case studies
- Photographs > Political aspects > United States > History
- Disasters > Political aspects > United States > Case studies
- Bush, George W (George Walker), 1946- > In mass media > Case studies
- Manipulative behavior > Political aspects > United States > Case studies
- Floods > Mississippi River > History > 20th century
- Photojournalism > Political aspects > United States > Case studies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Discoveries : from banality comes understanding -- Analysis : ways of seeing and studying images -- Publicity : the photo op as a political tool -- Floods : when water defeats land -- Lives : Herbert Clark Hoover and George Walker Bush -- Natchez : analysis of the Hoover photograph -- Delisle : analysis of the Bush photograph -- Connections : ordinary images teach complex lessons.
- Call Number
- IAG 10-2378
- ISBN
- 9781604732863 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1604732865 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009021666
- OCLC
- YBP 2009021666
- Author
- Lester, Paul Martin.
- Title
- On floods and photo ops : how Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush exploited catastrophes / Paul Martin Lester.
- Imprint
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- IAG 10-2378