| Contents |
Introduction: Jesse Helm's politics of pious incitement -- "There is another way": free enterprise, the mainstream media, and southern realignment in the 1950s -- "The voice of free enterprise": a conservative commentator and news director -- "An uncommon number of moral degenerates": the conservative alternative and the fairness doctrine -- Backlash: the great society, Vietnam, and conservative solutions -- Turning off turn-on: Helms as a TV executive in the 1960s -- The dawn of a conservative era: gaining power, 1968 to 1972 -- Epilogue: mainstreaming the fringe. |
| Abstract |
An exploration of how Jesse Helms pioneered the attack on the liberal media while building a new form of southern conservativism, centering on his time as executive vice president of WRAL-TV in Raleigh. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner NC stacks copy Purchased from RPL Library Store 10/12/2015 |
| Genre/form | Biography. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2013029232 |
| ISBN | 9780813049311 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813049318 (alk. paper) |
