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Apr 28, 2007

Basic yet oft forgotten function

by Cliopatria

"James L. Baughman performs the basic historian’s function of taking a story whose conclusion we all know and showing that it didn’t necessarily have to turn out that way." - Nicholas Lemann, Tune In Yesterday: The making of broadcast television, a review of James L. Baughman's Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961 in the New Yorker, 04/30/2007.