Newsboys
CUNY TV's One to One
English - June 30, 2021 01:00 - 26 minutes - 25 MBPolitics News cuny tv one to one sheryl mccarthy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Carrying a bundle of newspapers and shouting out the day’s headlines on city streets, the newsboy is an American icon. Featured in photographs, paintings, comic strips and public statues, he’s touted as someone who is quintessentially American. Who is—or was-- he? Why does he loom so large in the public imagination? And is he even always a boy? Vincent DiGirolamo, associate professor of history at Baruch College, answers these questions in his engaging book,“Crying the News: A History of American’s Newsboys.