CONTENTS
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ix |
I |
Historic Preparation for Journalism
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1 |
II |
The First Newspaper in America
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12 |
III |
The First Journals and Their Editors
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23 |
IV |
Philadelphia and the Bradfords
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35 |
V |
Printing in New York—The Zenger Trial
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45 |
VI |
Rise of Fourth Estate
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59 |
VII |
The Assumption of Political Power
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76 |
VIII |
The "Boston Gazette" and Samuel Adams
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100 |
IX |
Journalism and the Revolution
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116 |
X |
After the Revolution
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135 |
XI |
Growth of the Party Press
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153 |
XII |
The Editor and the Government
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164 |
XIII |
Adams and the Alien and Sedition Laws
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176 |
XIV |
Hamilton and the "Evening Post"
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190 |
XV |
Emigration and the Papers of the West
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200 |
XVI |
Suffrage and Slavery
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217 |
XVII |
Newspapers and the Capital
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230 |
XVIII |
Penny Papers and the "New York Sun"
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240 |
XIX |
James Gordon Bennett and the "Herald"
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255 |
XX |
Greeley and the "Tribune"
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269 |
XXI |
The "Times" and Greeley's Triumph
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282 |
XXII |
The Autocracy of the Slaveholders
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295 |
XXIII |
Civil War
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307 |
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