The Tyranny of Printers: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic

by Jeffrey L. Pasley

Book Overview

Although frequently attacked for their partisanship and undue political influence, the American media of today are objective and relatively ineffectual compared to their counterparts of two hundred years ago. From the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century, newspapers were the republic's central political institutions, working components of the party system rather than commentators on it. The Tyranny of Printers narrates the rise of this newspaper-based...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813920302
• ISBN13: 9780813920306
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 517 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"