Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The newspaper-based political system of the nineteenth-century United States
  • The printing trade in early American politics
  • The two national Gazettes and the beginnings of newspaper politics
  • Benjamin Franklin Bache and the price of partisanship
  • The background and failure of the sedition Act
  • Charles Holt's generation: from commercial printers to political professionals
  • The expansion of the Republican newspaper network, 1798-1800
  • A presence in the public sphere: William Duane and the triumph of newspaper politics
  • The new conventional wisdom: consolidating and expanding a newspaper-based political system
  • The federalists strike back
  • Improving on the Sedition Act: press freedom and political culture after 1800
  • The "tyranny of printers" in Jeffersonian Philadelphia
  • Ordinary editors and everyday politics: how the system worked
  • Newspaper editors and the reconstruction of party politics.