Lincoln's Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels and a President's Mission to Destroy the PressSourcebooks, Inc., 01/11/2006 - 368 من الصفحات In the blistering summer of 1861, President Lincoln began pressuring and ordering the physical shutdown of any Northern newspaper that voiced opposition to the war. These attacks were sometimes carried out by soldiers, sometimes by angry mobs under cover of darkness. Either way, the effect was a complete dismantling of the free press. In the midst stood publisher John Hodgson, an angry bigot so hated that a local newspaper gleefully reported his defeat in a bar fight. He was also firmly against Lincoln and the war--an opinion he expressed loudly through his newspaper. When his press was destroyed, first by a mob, then by U.S. Marshals "upon authority of the President of the United States," Hodgson decided to take on the entire United States. Thus began a trial in which one small-town publisher risked imprisonment or worse, and the future of free speech hung in the balance. Based on 10 years of original research, Lincoln's Wrath brings to life one of the most gripping, dramatic and unknown stories of U.S. history. |
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... followed by a self-deprecating story that brought raucous laughter. He had already gained a widespread reputation in Illinois for his humor and for his homely appearance, both of which he used for dramatic affect. The editors probably ...
... followed by a self-deprecating story that brought raucous laughter. He had already gained a widespread reputation in Illinois for his humor and for his homely appearance, both of which he used for dramatic affect. The editors probably ...
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... followed. The reality is a far cry from the image of a simple rail-splitter from Illinois who found himself suddenly in the national limelight. According to one of the lawyers who rode the Illinois judicial circuit with Lincoln, “He was ...
... followed. The reality is a far cry from the image of a simple rail-splitter from Illinois who found himself suddenly in the national limelight. According to one of the lawyers who rode the Illinois judicial circuit with Lincoln, “He was ...
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... followed them to the convention. Weed was responsible for the passage of a street railway bill in New York, passed to raise upwards of half a million dollars to finance Seward's campaign. Weed also controlled the New York delegation in ...
... followed them to the convention. Weed was responsible for the passage of a street railway bill in New York, passed to raise upwards of half a million dollars to finance Seward's campaign. Weed also controlled the New York delegation in ...
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... followed every thirty minutes by later editions if warranted. The arrival of the New York train at five in the evening brought the day's Herald, Tribune, and New-York Times, which were “howled about the streets, depots, landing camps ...
... followed every thirty minutes by later editions if warranted. The arrival of the New York train at five in the evening brought the day's Herald, Tribune, and New-York Times, which were “howled about the streets, depots, landing camps ...
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... followed has become something of an American legend, as the chief politicians of the day fought to include themselves but not their competitors in the new administration. In casting about to fill a cabinet that would at best keep the ...
... followed has become something of an American legend, as the chief politicians of the day fought to include themselves but not their competitors in the new administration. In casting about to fill a cabinet that would at best keep the ...
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A True Account of the United States of Ameria vs the Jeffersonian Newspaper | 193 |
Epilogue | 299 |
the Full Text of Judge Lowries Charge to the Jury | 309 |
About the Authors | 317 |
Bibliography | 319 |
Notes | 333 |
Index | 351 |
Back Cover | 359 |
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