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CONTENTS

PREFACE ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

vii

INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

ix

I

Historic Preparation for Journalism ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

1

II

The First Newspaper in America ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

12

III

The First Journals and Their Editors ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

23

IV

Philadelphia and the Bradfords ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

35

V

Printing in New York—The Zenger Trial ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

45

VI

Rise of Fourth Estate ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

59

VII

The Assumption of Political Power ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

76

VIII

The "Boston Gazette" and Samuel Adams ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

100

IX

Journalism and the Revolution ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

116

X

After the Revolution ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

135

XI

Growth of the Party Press ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

153

XII

The Editor and the Government ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

164

XIII

Adams and the Alien and Sedition Laws ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

176

XIV

Hamilton and the "Evening Post" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

190

XV

Emigration and the Papers of the West ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

200

XVI

Suffrage and Slavery ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

217

XVII

Newspapers and the Capital ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

230

XVIII

Penny Papers and the "New York Sun" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

240

XIX

James Gordon Bennett and the "Herald" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

255

XX

Greeley and the "Tribune" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

269

XXI

The "Times" and Greeley's Triumph ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

282

XXII

The Autocracy of the Slaveholders ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

295

XXIII

Civil War ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

307

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