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The power of the press : the birth of American political reporting / Thomas C. Leonard.
Van Pelt Library PN4888.P6 L46 1986
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LIBRA PN4888.P6 L46 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leonard, Thomas C., 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Press and politics--United States--History.
- Press and politics.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 273 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Press Vernacular and American Politics 3
- I. New Practices and New Ideals of the Eighteenth-Century Press
- 1. "The Wicked Printer," 13
- 2. News for a Revolution 33
- Towards the 19th, Century 54
- II. Words and Pictures in a Democracy
- 3. "Unfeeling Accuracy," 63
- 4. Visual Thinking: The Tammany Tiger Loose 97
- Towards the 20th Century 132
- III. Paths to Muckraking
- 5. Reporting from the Bottom 137
- 6. The Provincial Scandal 166
- IV. Reporting for a Phantom Public
- 7. The Civics and Anti-Civics of Muckraking 193.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 260-267.
- ISBN:
- 0195037197 :
- OCLC:
- 12582084
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