Author: Jerry W. Knudson
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
ISBN: 9781570036071
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
With the exception of Abraham Lincoln, no president prior to the twentieth century has been more vilified by the U.S. news media than Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson and the Press demonstrates the power of the press in the early years of the Republic. Four-fifths of the young nation's 235 newspapers were Federalist, but, as Jerry W. Knudson explains, the minority Republican newspapers combated these odds through direct invectives and vehemently candid reportage.