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Inventing American Telecommunications

Richard R. John

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Publication Date: 10/05/2015

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528 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Richard R. John is Professor of History at Columbia University.

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Watch John discuss Network Nation on a panel hosted by the New America Foundation

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2011 Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History Conference of the American Historical Association and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

2010 Best Journalism and Mass Communication History Book Award, History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

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