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Infamous scribblers : the founding fathers and the rowdy beginnings of American journalism / Eric Burns.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burns, Eric.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Journalism--United States--History--18th century.
- Journalism.
- American newspapers--History--18th century.
- American newspapers.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 467 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Public Affairs, [2006]
- Summary:
- A lively, witty, and fascinating account of the surprisingly rowdy and raucous journalism of the Revolutionary era--and how it helped to build a national that has endured--offers new perspective on today's media wars.
- Contents:
- The end of the beginning
- Publishing by authority
- Defying authority
- The sounds of Silence Dogood
- Science, sex, and super crown soap
- The end of authority
- Severing the snake
- "The Weekly dung barge"
- The Tory dung barge
- The shot spread 'cross the page
- Uncommon prose
- A sword of a different kind
- The passionate decade
- The not-so-unlikely target
- The Gazette
- versus the Gazette
- Dark whispers on the page
- "The arising vapour"
- Cobbett's quills
- Sedition
- Master and mistress
- Post-script
- Renewed subscriptions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [413]-449) and index.
- ISBN:
- 158648334X
- OCLC:
- 61461887
- Publisher Number:
- 9781586483340
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