The Biographical Encyclopedia of American Radio

This large‐format, attractively produced volume is the second volume of two that form an updated selection of entries from the three‐volume Encyclopedia of Radio (Sterling 2004). The first volume, The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio, was published in 2009, but in the volume reviewed here the focus is entirely on American (i.e. US) radio biography. (The publisher could have made this clearer.)

This volume consists of 211 alphabetically arranged entries of “the people who on and off the air made radio what it was”. Twenty‐three of the entries are entirely new and we are assured that other...