Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American JournalismPublicAffairs, 13. 2. 2007. - 480 страница Infamous Scribblers is a perceptive and witty exploration of the most volatile period in the history of the American press. News correspondent and renowned media historian Eric Burns tells of Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Sam Adams -- the leading journalists among the Founding Fathers; of George Washington and John Adams, the leading disdainers of journalists; and Thomas Jefferson, the leading manipulator of journalists. These men and the writers who abused and praised them in print (there was, at the time, no job description of "journalist") included the incendiary James Franklin, Ben's brother and one of the first muckrakers; the high minded Thomas Paine; the hatchet man James Callender, and a rebellious crowd of propagandists, pamphleteers, and publishers. It was Washington who gave this book its title. He once wrote of his dismay at being "buffited in the public prints by a set of infamous scribblers." The journalism of the era was often partisan, fabricated, overheated, scandalous, sensationalistic and sometimes stirring, brilliant, and indispensable. Despite its flaws -- even because of some of them -- the participants hashed out publicly the issues that would lead America to declare its independence and, after the war, to determine what sort of nation it would be. |
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The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism Eric Burns. "Mr. Burns . . . delivers history with flair and vividness." –WAll SIEEEI./01/MAI • ERI C B URNS - mous Scribblers Infamous Scribblers Also by Eric Burns ...
The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism Eric Burns. "Mr. Burns . . . delivers history with flair and vividness." –WAll SIEEEI./01/MAI • ERI C B URNS - mous Scribblers Infamous Scribblers Also by Eric Burns ...
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... journalism in the age of the Founding Fathers / Eric Burns. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-58648-334-0; ISBN-10: 1-58648-334-X (hc) 1. Journalism—United States—History—18th Century. 2. American ...
... journalism in the age of the Founding Fathers / Eric Burns. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-58648-334-0; ISBN-10: 1-58648-334-X (hc) 1. Journalism—United States—History—18th Century. 2. American ...
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... journalism? Why not declare it a national treasure and preserve it as originally constructed? Why not embrace the differences, however small, between yesterday and today? In a few cases, though, I have been thwarted. I have had to rely ...
... journalism? Why not declare it a national treasure and preserve it as originally constructed? Why not embrace the differences, however small, between yesterday and today? In a few cases, though, I have been thwarted. I have had to rely ...
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... journalism of the colonial era was cordial: Benjamin Franklin's pieces, especially in the Pennsylvania Gazette, were witty and insightful and, more often than not, absent of malice in any form. Some journalism was thoughtful: Alexander ...
... journalism of the colonial era was cordial: Benjamin Franklin's pieces, especially in the Pennsylvania Gazette, were witty and insightful and, more often than not, absent of malice in any form. Some journalism was thoughtful: Alexander ...
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... journalism was courageous: John Peter Zenger did not write at all but was a publisher of such uncommon and ... journalist's attire, a man even more devious outside the print shop than within. James Rivington, of Rivington's New ...
... journalism was courageous: John Peter Zenger did not write at all but was a publisher of such uncommon and ... journalist's attire, a man even more devious outside the print shop than within. James Rivington, of Rivington's New ...
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