Background
Littlewood, Thomas Benjamin was born on November 30, 1928 in Flint, Michigan, United States. Son of Thomas Nelson and Louise Engela (Grebenkemper) Littlewood.
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THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK - TO MEASURE THE PERSON AND TO EXAMINE THE BURDEN OF TRAGEDY, CIRCUMSTANTIAL AND MAN-MADE, THAT CARRIED THROUGH AN EVENTFUL PERIOD IN THE HISTORY OF THE STATE
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Calling Elections: The History of Horse-Race Journalism is the story of the origins and evolution of the "horse-race" tradition of political journalism in the United States. Thomas B. Littlewood examines how the treatment of elections as sporting events has come to overshadow the reporting of the campaign as a forum for the discussion of ideas. He suggests reasons for the perception of presidential elections as spectator sport: the historical interconnections between gambling, politics, and the press; the infusion of sports language into political rhetoric; the government spoils system that gives individuals and businesses a financial stake in the status of the contest; the methodological development of "scientific" polling; the fiercely declared independence of many formerly partisan organizations; the perverse conviction of many journalists in the early 1900s that substantive politics was not interesting to news consumers and that partisan "speech" belonged in the paid advertising columns of the newspaper. Political scientists, journalists, sociologists, American Studies scholars, and all those interested in the past, and upcoming, presidential elections will find much to ponder in Calling Elections: The History of Horse-Race Journalism.
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Littlewood, Thomas Benjamin was born on November 30, 1928 in Flint, Michigan, United States. Son of Thomas Nelson and Louise Engela (Grebenkemper) Littlewood.
Student, DePauw University, 1948-1951; Bachelor of Science, Northwestern University, 1952; Master of Science, Northwestern University, 1953.
Reporter, Chicago Sun-Times, 1953-1976; chief Springfield State Capital Bureau, Chicago Sun-Times, 1955-1964; correspondent Washington Bureau, Chicago Sun-Times, 1965-1976; professor journalism, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1977-1996; professor emeritus, since 1996; head Department, University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1977-1987.
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( In 1980 the Alton Telegraph of Madison County, Illinois...)
Member Society Professional Journalists (SDX National award 1988), Illinois State History Society, North America Society Sports History, Sigma Delta Chi, Kappa Tau Alpha.
Married Barbara E. Badger, June 9, 1951. Children: Linda S. Johnson, Lisa L. Ratchford, Thomas S., Leah J. Hamrick.