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Author:   Marcus Daniel (Assistant Professor of History, University of Hawaii)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9780199764815

ISBN 10:   0199764816
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   07 October 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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<br> To get some perspective . . . one need go no further than Scandal and Civility, Marcus Daniel's detailed study of the American press in the 1790s. . . . A timely reminder of just how vital a thriving news culture is to the well-being of our democracy. -Jay Winik, The Wall Street Journal<br> Daniel ends this superb and timely book with a reminder that America's great and durable institutions -freedom of the press among them-arose not out of the calm meditations of the Founders, but in the heat of acute political crises. -Patrick Allitt, The American Conservative<br> Without partisan and even scurrilous printers pushing the limits of a free press in the seventeen-nineties, Marcus Daniel argues, the legitimacy of a loyal opposition never would have been established and the new nation, with its vigorous and democratizing political culture, might never have found its feet. -Jill Lepore, The New Yorker <br> In this spirited and well-written book, Daniel offers a new context for unde

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Associate Professor of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa

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