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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... Dahlstrom, Neil, 1976- II. Title. E609.M36 2005 342.7308'53--dc22 2005027261 Printed and bound in the United States of America. BVG 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Such is the all but superstitious devotion of the people Copyright.
... Dahlstrom, Neil, 1976- II. Title. E609.M36 2005 342.7308'53--dc22 2005027261 Printed and bound in the United States of America. BVG 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Such is the all but superstitious devotion of the people Copyright.
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... 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 against the administration of ...
... 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 against the administration of ...
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... printing type thrown out of the window, and the huge printing press broken as best as possible by the sheer strength of the men. As such, it appeared a simple act of thuggery. But the actions on this evening also set in motion one of ...
... printing type thrown out of the window, and the huge printing press broken as best as possible by the sheer strength of the men. As such, it appeared a simple act of thuggery. But the actions on this evening also set in motion one of ...
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... Soon the speech was being printed throughout Illinois, including in pamphlet form, before at last seeing publication in Horace Greeley's New York Tribune.7 During his legendary debates with Senator Stephen A. Douglas in 10 Lincoln's Wrath.
... Soon the speech was being printed throughout Illinois, including in pamphlet form, before at last seeing publication in Horace Greeley's New York Tribune.7 During his legendary debates with Senator Stephen A. Douglas in 10 Lincoln's Wrath.
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... printed form for the masses. Throughout 1859, Lincoln worked to find a publisher for a collected volume of the debates. The lawyer-turned-politician had collected the reprints from various newspapers and made his own edits, as editors ...
... printed form for the masses. Throughout 1859, Lincoln worked to find a publisher for a collected volume of the debates. The lawyer-turned-politician had collected the reprints from various newspapers and made his own edits, as editors ...
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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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