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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... politician who helped create the modern American journalist, who continues to hold isicredible influeTice over public opinion. He was a man who powers and its 1 Irom its inherderstanding of this f his unique peixeper of the nineteenth ...
... politician who helped create the modern American journalist, who continues to hold isicredible influeTice over public opinion. He was a man who powers and its 1 Irom its inherderstanding of this f his unique peixeper of the nineteenth ...
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... politician his sarcasms and insights. As we researched Hodgson for this book, it was difficult for us to have sympathy for him and his Jeffersonian newspaper. The editor displayed all the crass racism too common among many of the pro ...
... politician his sarcasms and insights. As we researched Hodgson for this book, it was difficult for us to have sympathy for him and his Jeffersonian newspaper. The editor displayed all the crass racism too common among many of the pro ...
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... policies on civil rights, and what was destroyed in the name of preserving the Union. And it is a surprising new look at the great Lincoln as a politician extremely sophisticated at the use of the media. We have come.
... policies on civil rights, and what was destroyed in the name of preserving the Union. And it is a surprising new look at the great Lincoln as a politician extremely sophisticated at the use of the media. We have come.
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... politicians from Washington enjoyed watching the first battle of Bull Run, just outside of Manassas, Virginia, safe from harm and protected by centuries of tradition and etiquette. Yet just a month or so later, a different sort of ...
... politicians from Washington enjoyed watching the first battle of Bull Run, just outside of Manassas, Virginia, safe from harm and protected by centuries of tradition and etiquette. Yet just a month or so later, a different sort of ...
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... politician. Lincoln was a man who understood the press and continually manipulated its chief editors to support his ... politicians and newspapermen, the ability of a newspaper to expose hypocrisy or express an opposing view was as ...
... politician. Lincoln was a man who understood the press and continually manipulated its chief editors to support his ... politicians and newspapermen, the ability of a newspaper to expose hypocrisy or express an opposing view was as ...
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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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