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. to Dianne Wildman for 25 years of indispensability contents A Note to Readers Introduction: Inappropriate Behavior 3 Part.
The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism Eric Burns. to Dianne Wildman for 25 years of indispensability contents A Note to Readers Introduction: Inappropriate Behavior 3 Part.
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... Readers Introduction: Inappropriate Behavior 3 Part I: The Role of Authority 1: The End of the Beginning 2: Publishing by Authority 3: Defying Authority 4: The Sounds of Silence Dogood 67 5: Science, Sex, and Super Crown Soap The End of ...
... Readers Introduction: Inappropriate Behavior 3 Part I: The Role of Authority 1: The End of the Beginning 2: Publishing by Authority 3: Defying Authority 4: The Sounds of Silence Dogood 67 5: Science, Sex, and Super Crown Soap The End of ...
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... Epilogue: Renewed Subscriptions Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index 277 293 315 337 351 375 395 407 22: 21: 20: 413 441 451 455 a note to readers Eighteenth-century English is a notoriously whimsical viii Contents |
... Epilogue: Renewed Subscriptions Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index 277 293 315 337 351 375 395 407 22: 21: 20: 413 441 451 455 a note to readers Eighteenth-century English is a notoriously whimsical viii Contents |
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... readers Eighteenth-century English is a notoriously whimsical language, especially as it appears in newspapers. It ... reader finds himself smiling and catching his breath at the same moment—the whole toy chest dumped onto the printing ...
... readers Eighteenth-century English is a notoriously whimsical language, especially as it appears in newspapers. It ... reader finds himself smiling and catching his breath at the same moment—the whole toy chest dumped onto the printing ...
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... sake of convenience, both yours and mine, I refer to the publications in almost all cases by their most basic titles. Eric Burns, Westport, Connecticut Infamous Scribblers **** **w|N. sessee-swo *** **** |} | | x | A Note to Readers.
... sake of convenience, both yours and mine, I refer to the publications in almost all cases by their most basic titles. Eric Burns, Westport, Connecticut Infamous Scribblers **** **w|N. sessee-swo *** **** |} | | x | A Note to Readers.
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