TY - JOUR A1 - Bösch, Frank T1 - Rezension zu: Elian Nathans. Peter von Zahn’s Cold War Broadcasts to West Germany: Assessing America. - (Palgrave Macmillan, Studies in the History of the Media.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xxi, 334. - ISBN 978-3-319-50614-2 T2 - The American historical review N2 - It is well known that Western Europe and especially West Germany have been strongly influenced by the United States past 1945. Foreign correspondents played a crucial role in this field. One of the most influential postwar journalists in Germany, and the first permanent TV correspondent in the U.S., was Peter von Zahn (1913–2001). His weekly radio columns and his monthly TV documentary Bilder aus der Neuen Welt (Pictures from the New World) reached millions in the 1950s. Eli Nathans’s Peter von Zahn’s Cold War Broadcasts to West Germany: Assessing America is still the first book that analyzes the life and work of Zahn as an influential intermediary between America and West Germany. Luckily, many private letters of Zahn... Y1 - 2019 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48066 SN - 0002-8762 SN - 1937-5239 VL - 124 IS - 4 SP - 1539 EP - 1540 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER -