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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... LOYAL OPPOSITION 91 6. SUMMER OF RAGE 109 7. THE JEFFERSONIAN IS MOBBED 143 8. SUFFERING FOR LIBERTIES 161 II. A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VS. THE JEFFERSONIAN NEWSPAPER 193 9. THE COST OF THEIR CONVICTIONS 195 10 ...
... LOYAL OPPOSITION 91 6. SUMMER OF RAGE 109 7. THE JEFFERSONIAN IS MOBBED 143 8. SUFFERING FOR LIBERTIES 161 II. A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VS. THE JEFFERSONIAN NEWSPAPER 193 9. THE COST OF THEIR CONVICTIONS 195 10 ...
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... loyal opposition, Hodgson still wore the optimism so common among Americans in times of crisis. Days after the first shots were fired opening the great Civil War, this antiwar patriot sat at his writing desk and penned that “we have ...
... loyal opposition, Hodgson still wore the optimism so common among Americans in times of crisis. Days after the first shots were fired opening the great Civil War, this antiwar patriot sat at his writing desk and penned that “we have ...
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... loyal states. On Wednesday, August 28, 1861, readers in New York were provided a rare overview of the extent of the Lincoln administration's efforts to shut down the peace movement. They certainly knew of mob action in their own city ...
... loyal states. On Wednesday, August 28, 1861, readers in New York were provided a rare overview of the extent of the Lincoln administration's efforts to shut down the peace movement. They certainly knew of mob action in their own city ...
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... loyal Union men was to destroy the printing office of a legally publishing newspaper that had for years passionately argued politics between its eight pages. Amidst the high emotions of the day, its sole crime was that it stood squarely ...
... loyal Union men was to destroy the printing office of a legally publishing newspaper that had for years passionately argued politics between its eight pages. Amidst the high emotions of the day, its sole crime was that it stood squarely ...
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... loyal followings, and would bring their own power structure into the White House. Each also had strong commercial relations with major Republican newspapers. In the coming years, it would be difficult to determine whether decisions were ...
... loyal followings, and would bring their own power structure into the White House. Each also had strong commercial relations with major Republican newspapers. In the coming years, it would be difficult to determine whether decisions were ...
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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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