Words Like Colored Glass

Daniel K. Berman's publications have spanned a broad range of subject matter and disciplines but always with the goal of making a worthy topic interesting and accessible to readers, with a strong pro-consumer orientation. His work as a credit counselor in the 1980s led to publication in 1988 of his first book on consumer credit, which the American Library Association called "a thorough and enlightening primer on a subject of interest to most Americans." In his new series on the U.S. credit system, Dan brings to bear his training as an investigative news reporter and a social science Ph.D., presenting the results of meticulous research in an easy-to-read and entertaining format

Preface -- Introduction -- Paradigms Lost: Reconsidering the Concept of Modernization -- Political Institutionalization -- From Pax Americana to Fax Americana1: Communication Research and the Study of Politics -- The Chinese Press During the Late Ch’ing and Republican Era -- Politics and the Press on Taiwan, 1945–1990 -- Opposition Political Opinion Magazines -- Conclusion -- Glossary of Media Names