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Title American newspaper journalists, 1690-1872 / Perry J. Ashley, editor.

Publication Info. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1985.

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Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 43
Dictionary of literary biography complete online
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 43.
Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
Contents Arunah S. Abel (1806-1888) - Samuel Adams (1722-1803) - Benjamin Franklin Bache (1769-1798) - Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) - James Gordon Bennett (1795-1872) - Francis Preston Blair (1791-1876) - Samuel Bowles III (1826-1878) - Andrew Bradford (1686-1742) - John Bradford (1749-1830) - William Bradford III (1719-1791) - William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) -John Campbell (1653-1728) - Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903) - William Cobbett (1762-1835) - Daniel H. Craig (1811-1985) - George William Curtis (1824-1892) - John M. Daniel (1825-1865) - Benjamin Henry Day (1810-1889) - Felix Gregory de Fontaine (1834-1896) - Joseph Dennie (1768-1812) - Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) - William Duane (1760-1835) - John Dunlap (1747-1835) - Benjamin Edes (1732-18803) - George Henry Evans (1805-1856) - John Fenno (1751-1798) - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) - James Franklin (1697-1735) - Philip Freneau (1752-1832) - Hugh Gaine (1726-1807) - William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) - William Goddard (1740-1817) - Horace Greeley (1811-1872) - Duff Green (1791-1875) - Benjamin Harris (birthdte unkownwn-circa 1720) - John Holt (1721-1784) - Frank Leslie (1821-1880) - Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott (1823-1904) - Richard Adams Locke (1800-1871) - Matthew Lyon (1749-1822) - Joseph Medilll (1823-1899) -Hezekiah Niles (1777-1839) -B.S. Osbon (1827-1912) - Eleazer Oswald (1755-1795) - Thomas Paine (1737-1809) - James Parker (circa 17114-1770) - William Parks (circa 1698-1750) - Sara Payson Willis Parton (1811-1872) -William Trotter Porter (1809-1858) -George D. Prentice (1802-1870) - Henry Raymond (1820-1869) - Robert Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876) - Thomas Ritchie (1778-1854) - James Rivington (circa 1724-1802) - Anne Royall (1769-1854) - Benjamin Russell (1761-1845) - William Winston Seaton (1785-1866) - Samuel Harrison Smith (1772-1845) - Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) - Isaiah Thomas (1750-1831) - Peter Timothy (circa 1725-1782) - Benjamin Towne (circa 1740-1793) -- James Watson Webb (1802-1884) - Noah Webster (1758-1843) - George Wisner (1812-1849) - John Peter Zenger (1697-1746).
Summary Contains the stories of the great pioneers who created the American press and nurtured it from a position of complete subjection to authority in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the political and economic independence of the "penny press," which catered to the newly enfranchised working class of the nineteenth century.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web.
Original Version Original: 490 p.
System Details Mode of access: Internet.
Subject Journalism -- United States -- History.
Journalism.
United States.
History.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Journalists.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Journalists -- United States -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Journalists -- United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Ashley, Perry J.
Gale Group.
ISBN 0810317214
9780810317215