David S. Reynolds Quote

The inundation of the average American’s consciousness with profit-driven spectacles and images would not come until after the Civil War. Before the war, Americans attended to oratory with a seriousness and eagerness that would be frittered away with the advent of show business, a term introduced in 1850 but not widely used until the late sixties.

David S. Reynolds

The inundation of the average American’s consciousness with profit-driven spectacles and images would not come until after the Civil War. Before the war, Americans attended to oratory with a seriousness and eagerness that would be frittered away with the advent of show business, a term introduced in 1850 but not widely used until the late sixties.

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