{"product_id":"the-first-texas-news-barons-patrick-l-cox-9780292709775","title":"The First Texas News Barons","description":"\u003cp\u003e Newspaper publishers played a crucial role in transforming Texas into a modern state. By promoting expanded industrialization and urbanization, as well as a more modern image of Texas as a southwestern, rather than southern, state, news barons in the early decades of the twentieth century laid the groundwork for the enormous economic growth and social changes that followed World War II. Yet their contribution to the modernization of Texas is largely unrecognized. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book investigates how newspaper owners such as A. H. Belo and George B. Dealey of the \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e, Edwin Kiest of the \u003ci\u003eDallas Times Herald\u003c\/i\u003e, William P. Hobby and Oveta Culp Hobby of the \u003ci\u003eHouston Post\u003c\/i\u003e, Jesse H. Jones and Marcellus Foster of the \u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, and Amon G. Carter Sr. of the \u003ci\u003eFort Worth Star-Telegram\u003c\/i\u003e paved the way for the modern state of Texas. Patrick Cox explores how these news barons identified the needs of the state and set out to attract the private investors and public funding that would boost the state's civic and military infrastructure, oil and gas industries, real estate market, and agricultural production. He shows how newspaper owners used events such as the Texas Centennial to promote tourism and create a uniquely Texan identity for the state. To balance the record, Cox also demonstrates that the news barons downplayed the interests of significant groups of Texans, including minorities, the poor and underemployed, union members, and a majority of women. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick L. Cox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292709773\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292709775\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.94w x 0.72d","brand":"Patrick L. Cox","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056731123967,"sku":"9780292709775","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9921c811-2df7-4a38-a36d-291c1a4ff591.jpg?v=1685042947","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-first-texas-news-barons-patrick-l-cox-9780292709775","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}