"The tyranny of printers"
"The tyranny of printers": newspaper politics in the early American republic Jeffrey L. Pasley
Publisher: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2001.
ISBN: 0813921775
DDC: 71
LCC: PN4861
Edition: (pbk.)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-498) and index.
The newspaper-based political system of the nineteenth-century United
States -- The printing trade in early American politics -- The two
national Gazettes and the beginnings of newspaper politics --
Benjamin Franklin Bache and the price of partisanship -- The
background and failure of the sedition Act -- Charles Holt's
generation: from commercial printers to political professionals --
The expansion of the Republican newspaper network, 1798-1800 -- A
presence in the public sphere: William Duane and the triumph of
newspaper politics -- The new conventional wisdom: consolidating and
expanding a newspaper-based political system -- The federalists
strike back -- Improving on the Sedition Act: press freedom and
political culture after 1800 -- The "tyranny of printers" in
Jeffersonian Philadelphia -- Ordinary editors and everyday politics:
how the system worked -- Newspaper editors and the reconstruction of
party politics.
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