Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American JournalismPublicAffairs, 2007 M02 13 - 480 páginas 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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Página 11
... matters, but they are for other books to discuss, books whose goals are different from this one. It is also a selective portrait because it is more true of the upper classes than the lower, who “were very rough and disorderly in ...
... matters, but they are for other books to discuss, books whose goals are different from this one. It is also a selective portrait because it is more true of the upper classes than the lower, who “were very rough and disorderly in ...
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... matters of state? Such momentous questions. Such a variety of possible answers. Surely it seemed to most Americans a time for decisiveness more than congeniality, for directness of expression more than niceties of locution. Even a ...
... matters of state? Such momentous questions. Such a variety of possible answers. Surely it seemed to most Americans a time for decisiveness more than congeniality, for directness of expression more than niceties of locution. Even a ...
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... matter—history more than current affairs—until the telegraph came into use in the 1840s and “threatened to overwhelm its users with information and insist on their rapid response.” But we are getting ahead of our story. For the printer ...
... matter—history more than current affairs—until the telegraph came into use in the 1840s and “threatened to overwhelm its users with information and insist on their rapid response.” But we are getting ahead of our story. For the printer ...
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... matter nearly as much as his occupation. The mail service might not have been much help to journalism at the dawn of the eighteenth century, but to be in charge of the post office, especially in a city the size of Boston, and especially ...
... matter nearly as much as his occupation. The mail service might not have been much help to journalism at the dawn of the eighteenth century, but to be in charge of the post office, especially in a city the size of Boston, and especially ...
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... matters that could not be provided by a clergyman? The recent arrivals to America might have agreed with the succinct editorial that appeared in the News-Letter on the occasion of the paper's finally having encountered some competition ...
... matters that could not be provided by a clergyman? The recent arrivals to America might have agreed with the succinct editorial that appeared in the News-Letter on the occasion of the paper's finally having encountered some competition ...
Contenido
XXI | 225 |
XXII | 247 |
XXIII | 261 |
XXIV | 277 |
XXV | 293 |
XXVI | 315 |
XXVII | 337 |
XXVIII | 351 |
XII | 113 |
XIII | 115 |
XIV | 135 |
XV | 171 |
XVI | 185 |
XVII | 199 |
XVIII | 211 |
XIX | 223 |
XXIX | 375 |
XXX | 395 |
XXXI | 407 |
XXXII | 413 |
XXXIII | 441 |
XXXIV | 451 |
XXXV | 455 |
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Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of ... Eric Burns Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 232 - American Revolution with those of the late American war. The American war is over: but this is far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the great drama is closed.
Página 279 - In spite of all the learned have said, I still my old opinion keep; The posture, that we give the dead, Points out the soul's eternal sleep. Not so the ancients of these lands — The Indian, when from life released, Again is seated with his friends, And shares again the joyous feast.
Página 107 - It is the best cause. It is the cause of liberty, and I make no doubt but your upright conduct this day will not only entitle you to the love and...
Página 219 - America, to forget all past misunderstandings and differences that have unhappily interrupted the good correspondence and friendship which they mutually wish to restore, and to establish such a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse between the two countries, upon the ground of reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience, as may promote and secure to both perpetual peace and harmony...
Página 106 - Court and you gentlemen of the jury is not of small or private concern; it is not the cause of a poor printer, nor of New York alone, which you are now trying. No! It may in its consequence affect every freeman that lives under a British government on the main of America. It is the best cause. It is the cause of liberty...
Página 107 - That to which Nature and the Laws of our Country have given us a Right, — The Liberty — both of exposing and opposing arbitrary Power (in these Parts of the World, at least) by speaking and writing Truth.
Página 206 - Britain, and, still hoping for the best, are apt to call out, "Come, come, we shall be friends again, for all this." But examine the passions and feelings of mankind, Bring the doctrine of reconciliation to the touchstone of nature, and then tell me, whether you can hereafter love, honor, and faithfully serve the power that hath carried fire and sword into your land? If you cannot do all these, then are you only deceiving yourselves, and by your delay bringing ruin upon posterity.
Página 311 - Year 1796,' in which the charge of speculation against Alexander Hamilton, late Secretary of the Treasury, is fully refuted. Written by Himself."— EDS.
Página 307 - Washington. If ever a nation was deceived by a man, the American nation has been deceived by Washington. Let his conduct then be an example to future ages. Let it serve to be a warning that no man may be an idol and that a people may confide in themselves rather than in an individual.
Página 42 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!