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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... opinion. He was a man who powers and its 1 Irom its inherderstanding of this f his unique peixeper of the nineteenth | Lincoin grasped its slating later in the n, whether he he pricape destruction, a newspaper equally ulation in the ...
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... opinion of the Civil War from the United States and abroad. It should be noted that to a surprising degree, many of the antiwar newspapers of the Civil War are located only in the historical society of the publishing town. It is often ...
... opinion of the Civil War from the United States and abroad. It should be noted that to a surprising degree, many of the antiwar newspapers of the Civil War are located only in the historical society of the publishing town. It is often ...
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... opinions and publish only glowing praise of government actions. On one level this is the story of an angry, emotional, colorful, and stubborn bigot who was also a passionate believer in the freedom of the press. He took on an American ...
... opinions and publish only glowing praise of government actions. On one level this is the story of an angry, emotional, colorful, and stubborn bigot who was also a passionate believer in the freedom of the press. He took on an American ...
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... opinion. For ten years we have read these antiwar newspapers and pored through the personal diaries and letters of a forgotten generation of editors, writers, and publishers. We have come to feel their fear of taking on an ...
... opinion. For ten years we have read these antiwar newspapers and pored through the personal diaries and letters of a forgotten generation of editors, writers, and publishers. We have come to feel their fear of taking on an ...
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... opinions, the paper apparently was destined to be crushed, its publication stopped, and the fear of God put into the heart of not only the local family that owned the paper, the Hodgsons, but so too all the subscribers who still opposed ...
... opinions, the paper apparently was destined to be crushed, its publication stopped, and the fear of God put into the heart of not only the local family that owned the paper, the Hodgsons, but so too all the subscribers who still opposed ...
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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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