Books written by Charles L. Ponce de Leon
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That's the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America
In January 1982, Sauter fired Charles Kuralt and Shad Northshield from the CBS Morning Show and hired a new producer, George Merlis, to reshape the broadcast. Merlis, a former producer of ABC's Good Morning, America, kept Diane Sawyer, ...
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Self-Exposure: Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-1940
... of the professional-managerial class, see Eugene E. Leach, ''Mastering the Crowd,'' American Studies 27 (1986): 99–117; and Stuart Ewen, PR!: ... Burton J. Hendrick, ''The Leadership of Samuel Gompers,'' World's Work 35 (Feb.
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Fortunate Son: The Life of Elvis Presley
Gladys was afraid her son might be injured or even killed by a jealous boyfriend. Or he could find himself "in trouble" with a girl he met on the road. To be sure, Gladys was proud of her son's accomplishments and derived great ...
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That's the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America
The familiar story of decline fails to acknowledge real changes in the media and Americans’ news-consuming habits, while also harking back to a golden age that, on closer examination, is revealed to be not so golden after all.
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That's the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America
Charles Ponce de Leon says here, in effect, that this is misleading, if not simply fatuous. He argues in this well-paced, lively, readable book that TV news has changed in response to broader changes in the TV industry and American culture.
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Fortunate Son: The Life of Elvis Presley
The author succinctly places Elvis's life within the larger shifts that redefined the cultural landscape during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, discovering in the mounting ironies of Elvis's waning success the seeds of mythology about the King ...