Background
Alex Lubertozzi was born in the United States.
Champaign, IL, United States
Alex received a Master of Arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Champaign, IL, United States
Alex received a Master of Arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
(In 1898, H.G. Wells wanted to find out what it would be l...)
In 1898, H.G. Wells wanted to find out what it would be like if an intelligent race of Martians turned the tables on Victorian England by conquering and colonizing the world’s greatest empire. For readers around the world, The War of the Worlds elicited their darkest, deepest fears. In 1938, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air adapted the H.G. Wells novel to radio and used that medium’s immediacy, along with a series of realistic "newsflashes" as part of the story, to drive more than a million people mad with terror. Orson Welles said he "wanted people to understand that…they shouldn’t swallow everything that came through the tap, whether it was radio or not." He succeeded beyond his wildest expectations while claiming absolute innocence the next day. The Panic Broadcast, as it would be known, became the most notorious radio broadcast in history. The Complete War of the Worlds tells the story behind the story-how H.G. Wells' tale of Martian invasion captured the imagination of Orson Welles, and how the book and the broadcast went on to inspire hundreds of imitators.
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-War-Worlds-Brian-Holmsten/dp/1570717141/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Alex+Lubertozzi&qid=1608800317&sr=8-2
2001
(The story of World War II was told first not by historian...)
The story of World War II was told first not by historians, but by reporters. And no one told that story with more impact than Edward R. Murrow and the remarkable band of reporters he assembled. World War II on the Air recounts the dramatic stories behind these extraordinary correspondents. And it lets you hear their actual broadcasts, culled from the archives and collected here-many for the first time-on audio CD, narrated by Dan Rather. When war broke out, there was no TV, no satellites, no Internet to spread the news. There was a radio. Murrow and his fellow CBS radio correspondents reported directly to listeners as the news unfolded. They invented a new kind of reporting while bringing the events of the war into America’s living rooms from capitals and battlefields all over the world.
https://www.amazon.com/World-War-II-Air-Broadcasts/dp/1402200269/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Alex+Lubertozzi&qid=1608800317&sr=8-4
2003
Alex Lubertozzi was born in the United States.
Alex received a Master of Arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
While Alex Lubertozzi worked as an acquiring editor and book editor for Sourcebooks, Inc., a Naperville, Illinois-based publisher of nonfiction and fiction, he also wrote and edited nonfiction titles of his own. His titles include examinations of mid-twentieth century media and were praised for their scope and illustrations.
The War of the Worlds: Mars' Invasion of Earth, Inciting Panic and Inspiring Terror from H. G. Wells to Orson Welles and Beyond (2001), written and edited with Brian Holmsten, covers the ways the science fiction story by Wells, The War of the Worlds, has been adapted over the years. The book also includes biographical information about those involved with the adaptations and a compact disc with several radio broadcasts of the story, including actor/director Orson Welles's infamous 1938 broadcast.
Lubertozzi wrote World War II on the Air: Edward R. Murrow and the Broadcasts That Riveted a Nation with Mark Bernstein (2003). This book is a history of Murrow's impact on what the authors believe was the start of foreign broadcast journalism with the beginning of World War II in the late 1930s. The effect of the work of Murrow and his so-called Murrow's Boys (a group of radio journalists that worked with him) on the American public is also explored. The book includes a compact disc of related broadcasts, allowing listeners to lie what was actually on the air into the text.
He is the owner and publisher of Top Five Books, LLC.
(The story of World War II was told first not by historian...)
2003(In 1898, H.G. Wells wanted to find out what it would be l...)
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