" The Weekly War frames the war--or rather the presentation of the war to a reasonably wide swath of the American public--in a new way. Documenting the shift from the raw perception we see in the articles by Blythe, Cobb, and Rinehart to the more routinized perception once patriotic fervor had been stirred strikes me as the single most valuable contribution made by this book."-- Tim Dayton , co-editor of A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War "This will appeal to history and literature professors who talk about World War I--it will provide evidence we can use in teaching or analyzing public opinion about the war. It will also appeal to students researching the culture and literature of the 1920s."-- Pearl James , author of The New Death: American Modernism and World War I and editor of Picture This! World War I Posters and Visual Culture "From life aboard ship as Europe plunged toward Armageddon, through the horrors of trench warfare, to the Paris peace conference, The Weekly War contains not only adeptly chosen stories showcasing the Saturday Evening Post 's reporting but also excellent essays that skillfully contextualize the magazine's output. A must-read for anyone interested in how Americans have consumed war."-- Steven Casey , author of War Beat, Pacific: The American Media at War against Japan "In a narrative with pace and substance, Chris Dubbs and Carolyn Edy treat us to what they rightly describe as the Saturday Evening Post 's 'American time capsule of the Great War,' replete with the authors' insights and the actual writings of the popular mystery writers, humorists, and theater critics who became war correspondents, as they appeared in the magazine's pages each week. As the stories made their way into the homes of the Post 's legions of readers, they helped the nation fashion a view of what was happening 'over there.

' What a riveting approach to telling us the story of World War I anew."-- Brooke Kroeger, author of Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism.