TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burns,Eric
TI  - Invasion of the mind snatchers: television's conquest of America in the fifties 
SN  - 9781439902882 :
AV  - PN1992.3.U5 .B85 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Temple University Press
KW  - Television broadcasting
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : Philo T. Farnsworth's discontent -- The medium. Damning the "theenk" -- The new American family -- The hula hoop and the bomb -- Invisible doughnuts and coonskins caps -- Really big shows -- The competition -- The messages. The first senator -- The second senator -- The third senator -- Advertising for President -- The mystic knights of the sea -- "The technological equivalent of a crucifix" -- Sexless objects -- The constant parade -- Serving the sky chief -- The Black Sox of the airwaves -- Epilogue
ER  -