Froth & scum : truth, beauty, goodness, and the ax murder in America's first mass medium /

Main Author: Tucher, Andie.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1994.
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1557
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505 0 |a pt. 1. Fighting for the truth -- The penny press is born -- On public duty -- Who was Aspasia? -- Who killed Helen Jewett? -- Truth or humbuggery? -- The truth about humbug -- Murderous conventions -- Getting away with murder -- The end of the affair -- pt. 2. From humbug to authority -- Death of a printer -- A new face -- A war of morals, a clash of cultures -- For the virtuous and refined -- Greeley expounds on murder -- The human race advances -- The new improved Herald misses a story -- In search of James Gordon Fishblatt. 
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