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OverviewCarl R. Osthaus examines the southern contribution to American Press history, from Thomas Ritchie's mastery of sectional politics and the New Orleans Picayune's popular voice and use of local color, to the emergence of progressive New South editors Henry Watterson, Francis Dawson, and Henry Grady, who imitated, as far as possible, the New Journalism of the 1880s. Unlike black and reform editors who spoke for minorities and the poor, the South's mainstream editors of the nineteenth century advanced the interests of the elite and helped create the myth of southern unity. The southern press diverged from national standards in the years of sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction. Addicted to editorial diatribes rather than to news gathering, these southern editors of the middle period were violent, partisan, and vindictive. They exemplified and defended freedom of the press, but the South's press was free only because southern society was closed. This work broadens our understanding of journalism of the South, while making a valuable contribution to southern history. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carl R. OsthausPublisher: The University Press of Kentucky Imprint: The University Press of Kentucky Weight: 0.726kg ISBN: 9780813118758ISBN 10: 0813118751 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 30 September 1994 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Undergraduate , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationCarl R. Osthaus is associate professor of history at Oakland University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |