"The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic

Although frequently attacked for their partisanship and undue political influence, the American media of today are objective...
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"The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic by Pasley, Jeffrey L.

"The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic

$955.93

"The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic

$955.93
Author: Jeffrey L. Pasley
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Although frequently attacked for their partisanship and undue political influence, the American media of today are objective and relatively ineffectual compared to their counterparts of two hundred years ago. From the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century, newspapers were the republic's central political institutions, working components of the party system rather than commentators on it.

The Tyranny of Printers narrates the rise of this newspaper-based politics, in which editors became the chief party spokesmen and newspaper offices often served as local party headquarters. Beginning when Thomas Jefferson enlisted a Philadelphia editor to carry out his battle with Alexander Hamilton for the soul of the new republic (and got caught trying to cover it up), the centrality of newspapers in political life gained momentum after Jefferson's victory in 1800, which was widely credited to a superior network of papers. Jeffrey L. Pasley tells the rich story of this political culture and its culmination in Jacksonian democracy, enlivening his narrative with accounts of the colorful but often tragic careers of individual editors.



Author: Jeffrey L. Pasley
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 11/29/2002
Pages: 540
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.06w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9780813921778

About the Author

Jeffrey L. Pasley, a former staff writer for the New Republic, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Missouri.




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