Hello, Everybody! : The Dawn of American Radio

Rudel, Anthony J.

ISBN 10: 015101275X / ISBN 13: 9780151012756

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2008

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Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hello, Everybody! : The Dawn of American Radio
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 015101275X
• ISBN 13: 9780151012756
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 1.367 pounds

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Synopsis

Long before the internet, another young technology was transformed--with help from a colorful collection of eccentrics and visionaries--into a mass medium with the power to connect millions of people.

When amateur enthusiasts began sending fuzzy signals from their garages and rooftops, radio broadcasting was born. Sensing the medium's potential, snake-oil salesmen and preachers took to the air, at once setting early standards for radio programming and making bedlam of the airwaves. Into the chaos stepped a young secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover, whose passion for organization guided the technology's growth. When a charismatic bandleader named Rudy Vallee created the first on-air variety show and America elected its first true radio president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, radio had arrived.

With clarity, humor, and an eye for outsized characters forgotten by polite history, Anthony Rudel tells the story of the boisterous years when radio took its place in the nation's living room and forever changed American politics, journalism, and entertainment.

About the Authors

ANTHONY RUDEL has spent his professional life in radio, including ten years on the air, as well as stints as vice president of programming for WQXR in New York and SW Radio Networks. He now consults for radio stations across the country. He is the author of the novel Imagining Don Giovanni and two books on classical music. He lives in Chappaqua, New York.

ANTHONY RUDEL has spent his professional life in radio, including ten years on the air, as well as stints as vice president of programming for WQXR in New York and SW Radio Networks. The author of the novel Imagining Don Giovanni and two books on classical music, he now consults for radio stations across the country and lives in Chappaqua, New York.