Mightier Than the Sword: An Introduction

Roger Streitmatter, author of Mightier Than the Sword, vividly summarized his text which investigates  how the news media throughout history has shaped America as a nation and as a democracy. The author explains how throughout the next chapters of his book, he plans to explain in detail how fifteen seperate past events, some decades ago, and some just a few years short of today, have built up the democratic society in which we live today through coverage, or lack of coverage in the media. His book was not created to serve as a historical fact-based textbook, but rather an engaging text that uses history only as its supporting details, as opposed to the back-bone of his words. Experienced as a journalist as well as a professor, paired with a Ph.D. in U.S. History, it is no doubt that Streitmatter is more than qualified in his work, and his text is something I look forward to exploring.