The Tyranny of Printers”: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic

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Although often attacked for their partisanship and undue political influence, the American media of as of late are objective and reasonably ineffectual in comparison to their counterparts of two hundred years ago. From the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century, newspapers were the republic’s central political institutions, working components of the party system somewhat than commentators on it.

The Tyranny of Printers narrates the upward push of this newspaper-based politics, in which editors became the chief party spokesmen and newspaper offices steadily served as local party headquarters. Beginning when Thomas Jefferson enlisted a Philadelphia editor to carry out his battle with Alexander Hamilton for the soul of the new republic (and got caught seeking to cover it up), the centrality of newspapers in political life gained momentum after Jefferson’s victory in 1800, which used to be widely credited to a superior network of papers. Jeffrey L. Pasley tells the wealthy story of this political culture and its culmination in Jacksonian democracy, enlivening his narrative with accounts of the colorful but steadily tragic careers of individual editors.

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