"The tyranny of printers": newspaper politics in the early American republic
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Main Author: Pasley, Jeffrey L. 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville University Press of Virginia 2001
Series:Jeffersonian America
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 517 pages)
ISBN:0813921899
9780813921891

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