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Lincoln and the Power of the Press - 9781494506285

Un libro in lingua di Harold Holzer Foley Kevin (NRT) edito da Tantor Media Inc, 2014

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From his earliest days, Lincoln devoured newspapers. As he started out in politics he wrote editorials and letters to argue his case. He spoke to the public directly through the press. He even bought a German-language newspaper to appeal to that growing electorate in his state.

When war broke out and the nation was tearing itself apart, Lincoln authorized the most widespread censorship in the nation's history, closing down papers that were "disloyal" and even jailing or exiling editors who opposed enlistment or sympathized with secession.

Holzer shows us an activist Lincoln through journalists who covered him from his start through to the night of his assassination. In a wholly original way, Holzer shows us politicized newspaper editors battling for power, and a masterly president using the press to speak directly to the people and shape the nation.

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