American Decades
Charles Van Doren and the Quiz Show Scandal
"Reaction to the Van Doren Reaction"
Magazine article
By: Hans J. Morgenthau
Date: November 22, 1959
Source: Morgenthau, Hans J. "Reaction to the Van Doren Reaction.." The New York Times Magazine, November 22, 1959, 17, 106.
About the Author: Hans J. Morgenthau (1904–1980) was a prominent political scientist who studied foreign policy. He was trained at the University of Frankfurt and emigrated to the United States in 1937. He was one of the first to oppose to the Vietnam War and wrote over twenty books, among them being Politics among Nations and The Decline of Democratic Politics. He taught at a number of universities, including the University of Chicago.
"More Reaction to Van Doren"
Letters
By: The New York Times Magazine
Date: December 6, 1959
Source: "More Reaction to the...
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1950's Media Primary Sources
- Charles Schulz's Peanuts
- "New York: Nightmare"
- Celebrity Deaths in the 1950s
- News is a Singular Thing
- Alan Freed Popularizes Rock 'n' Roll
- "What Killed Collier's?"
- "Common Sense and Sputnik"
- Leave It to Beaver
- The Huntley-Brinkley Report
- Communists in the Media
- "Ed Sullivan—Ten Years of TV"
- Dick Clark's American Bandstand
- Charles Van Doren and the Quiz Show Scandal
- Love, Alice: My Life As a Honeymooner
- "The Politics of Race: An Interview with Harry Ashmore"
- Love, Lucy
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
