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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... town. It is often overlooked how tenuous are the links to our past. Assuring the preservation of full collections of those newspapers that may not have supported the Lincoln administration is as critical as preserving those more popular ...
... town. It is often overlooked how tenuous are the links to our past. Assuring the preservation of full collections of those newspapers that may not have supported the Lincoln administration is as critical as preserving those more popular ...
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... town of West Chester. Each week Hodgson's editorials threw barbed criticisms at the Civil War and at Lincoln personally. He wrote colorfully against those who swarmed around the president, calling them sycophants and pimps. His ...
... town of West Chester. Each week Hodgson's editorials threw barbed criticisms at the Civil War and at Lincoln personally. He wrote colorfully against those who swarmed around the president, calling them sycophants and pimps. His ...
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... town. It was the perfect cover. Darkness had consumed the intersections of commerce, the moonlight created shadows ... town in America today. The impact on small-town publishers across the country; the fear that would fall over local ...
... town. It was the perfect cover. Darkness had consumed the intersections of commerce, the moonlight created shadows ... town in America today. The impact on small-town publishers across the country; the fear that would fall over local ...
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... towns in August of 1861. Was it founded on sound policy or on the thin skin of Secretary of State Seward, who was plotting to emerge as the savior of the Union and leader of the Republican Party? And where did President Lincoln stand on ...
... towns in August of 1861. Was it founded on sound policy or on the thin skin of Secretary of State Seward, who was plotting to emerge as the savior of the Union and leader of the Republican Party? And where did President Lincoln stand on ...
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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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