This page brings together the planned “Table of Contents” (although not laid out explicitly by Whitehead), “Introduction” and Chapters 1, 2, and 3 in various stages of development.
Also included are Whitehead’s “Broad Outline” and “Topics Draft” as well as twelve “Chapter Headings” (which exist as brief summary headings rather than drafts). Whitehead intended all of these as prefatory notes, reminders, or suggestions.
“Bibliography I” consists of 161 sources used, and “Bibliography II” consists of 68 intended for use. All of these texts, which should be available in the Library of Congress, are also available in the Whitehead family archive. Wherever possible links to the print, video, and audio materials cited in both bibliographies are provided.
Broad Outline 9-03 [Thirteen point list of important topics Whitehead intended to address]
Topics Draft 10-07-04 [Thirty-six bullet points of topics and themes drafted by Whitehead intended to address]
Introduction
Introduction 1-18-07 [Draft Number Uncertain] (prior to addition of Burgess footnotes)
Introduction 04-09 [Draft Number Uncertain] (including Burgess footnotes in brackets)
- Chaos, Competition, & Consolidation
Three notes concerning Section I
Chapter 1. Theodore Vail and the Creation of the Bell System (Originally named The Telephone & Theodore Vail) Chapter 1 Vail section draft 03-18-07 mod A (CTW’s original draft)
Chapter 1 notes [29 point list of information considered in drafting Chapter 1]
Chapter 2. New Origins of Radio (Originally named Communication Without Wires)Chapter 2 Wireless draft 11-14-07 (prior to addition of Burgess footnotes)
Chapter 2 [Research Narrative by Whitehead, with minor Burgess edits and her bracketed footnotes]
Chapter 2 Notes [43 notes taken by Whitehead while reviewing Susan Douglas’s Inventing American Broadcasting]
Chapter 3. The Birth of Radio Broadcasting and Radio Set Manufacturing (Originally named World War I Radio - 01-13-08 (prior to addition of Burgess footnotes)
Chapter 3 - Radio - [Research Narrative, with minor Burgess edits and her bracketed footnotes]
II. Monopoly Enthroned
Chapter 5. The 1934 Communications Act
A. Network Radio Becomes Network TV
B. Telephone Becomes Telecommunications
Chapter 7. The Monopoly of the Three TV Networks
III. Monopoly Undone
Chapter 8. The Gathering Storm
A. MCI etc
B. Cable TV and Satellites
Chapter 9. The Transformation of TV (OTP, Galaxy, Astra)
Chapter 10. The Breakup of AT&T (OTP)
IV. A New Century
Bibliography I (161 sources used)
Bibliography II (68 sources intended for use)