Partisans of the Southern Press: Editorial Spokesmen of the Nineteenth Century

Partisans of the Southern Press: Editorial Spokesmen of the Nineteenth Century - Paperback

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Partisans of the Southern Press: Editorial Spokesmen of the Nineteenth Century - Paperback

Partisans of the Southern Press: Editorial Spokesmen of the Nineteenth Century - Paperback

$59.85
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by Carl R. Osthaus (Author)

Carl R. Osthaus examines the southern contribution to American Press history, from Thomas Ritchie's mastery of sectional politics and the New Orleans Picayune's popular voice and use of local color, to the emergence of progressive New South editors Henry Watterson, Francis Dawson, and Henry Grady, who imitated, as far as possible, the New Journalism of the 1880s. Unlike black and reform editors who spoke for minorities and the poor, the South's mainstream editors of the nineteenth century advanc

Author Biography

Carl R. Osthaus is associate professor of history at Oakland University.

Number of Pages: 288
Dimensions: 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: July 15, 2014

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