Format:
Online-Ressource (159 p)
ISBN:
9780252072215
Series Statement:
History of Communication
Content:
In the troubled years leading up to the Civil War, newspapers in the North and South presented the arguments for and against slavery, debated the right to secede, and disputed the Dred Scott decision, denouncing opposing viewpoints with imagination and vigor. _x000B__x000B_Although it is impossible to determine the precise effect of the newspapers on their readers, there is no question that they took the temperature of their communities and recorded the rising local agitations, unifying opinions, raising alarms, and cementing prejudices. _x000B__x000B_Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight Teeter's Fanatics and Fire-Eaters ably demonstrates the power of a fast-growing media to influence both perception and the course of events.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. The Emergence of a Democratic Press -- 2. Impending Civilization: The Brooks-Sumner Incident -- 3. The Dred Scott Decision and a Society of Laws -- 4. Kansas and the Lecompton Constitution: Does the Majority Rule? -- 5. John Brown's Raid: Violence in a Republican Society -- 6. Lincoln's Election: Could a Republican Lead the Republic? -- 7. Firing on Fort Sumter: A Republic at War with Itself -- Conclusion: The Shattered Republic -- NOTES -- INDEX -- back cover.
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Description based upon print version of record
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""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""1. The Emergence of a Democratic Press""; ""2. Impending Civilization: The Brooks-Sumner Incident""; ""3. The Dred Scott Decision and a Society of Laws""; ""4. Kansas and the Lecompton Constitution: Does the Majority Rule?""; ""5. John Brown's Raid: Violence in a Republican Society""; ""6. Lincoln's Election: Could a Republican Lead the Republic?""; ""7. Firing on Fort Sumter: A Republic at War with Itself""; ""Conclusion: The Shattered Republic""; ""NOTES""; ""INDEX""; ""back cover""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252092213
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252072215
Additional Edition:
Print version Fanatics and Fire-Eaters : Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War
Language:
English
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