Lincoln's Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels and a President's Mission to Destroy the PressIn the blistering summer of 1861, President Lincoln began pressuring and ordering the physical shutdown of any Northern newspaper that voiced opposition to the war. These attacks were sometimes carried out by soldiers, sometimes by angry mobs under cover of darkness. Either way, the effect was a complete dismantling of the free press. In the midst stood publisher John Hodgson, an angry bigot so hated that a local newspaper gleefully reported his defeat in a bar fight. He was also firmly against Lincoln and the war--an opinion he expressed loudly through his newspaper. When his press was destroyed, first by a mob, then by U.S. Marshals "upon authority of the President of the United States," Hodgson decided to take on the entire United States. Thus began a trial in which one small-town publisher risked imprisonment or worse, and the future of free speech hung in the balance. Based on 10 years of original research, Lincoln's Wrath brings to life one of the most gripping, dramatic and unknown stories of U.S. history. |
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... later in the n, whether he he pricape destruction, a newspaper equally ulation in the same his statement goes vital as 11 is today. Argument can be made that it was more vital, as there was no other outlet lor news coverage. The counlry ...
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... later, a different sort of battle was taking place, one involving the blurred boundaries more closely associated with modern warfare. For the intent of these unknown loyal Union men was to destroy the printing office of a legally ...
... later, a different sort of battle was taking place, one involving the blurred boundaries more closely associated with modern warfare. For the intent of these unknown loyal Union men was to destroy the printing office of a legally ...
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... later in the war that “no man, whether he be private citizen or president of the United States, can successfully carry on a controversy with a great newspaper, and escape destruction, unless he owns a newspaper equally great, with a ...
... later in the war that “no man, whether he be private citizen or president of the United States, can successfully carry on a controversy with a great newspaper, and escape destruction, unless he owns a newspaper equally great, with a ...
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... later, in April 1858, four Chicago editors propped up Lincoln as the next senator of Illinois. At the state convention in Springfield in June, they offered a resolution that “Abraham Lincoln is the first and only choice of the ...
... later, in April 1858, four Chicago editors propped up Lincoln as the next senator of Illinois. At the state convention in Springfield in June, they offered a resolution that “Abraham Lincoln is the first and only choice of the ...
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... later introduced to Lincoln by his boyhood friend, Jesse Fell, one of Lincoln's campaign managers (and founder of the Bloomington Pantograph). Since he was mostly unknown on the East Coast, Lincoln sought to obtain a more national ...
... later introduced to Lincoln by his boyhood friend, Jesse Fell, one of Lincoln's campaign managers (and founder of the Bloomington Pantograph). Since he was mostly unknown on the East Coast, Lincoln sought to obtain a more national ...
Contents
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A True Account of the United States of Ameria vs the Jeffersonian Newspaper | 193 |
Epilogue | 299 |
the Full Text of Judge Lowries Charge to the Jury | 309 |
About the Authors | 317 |
Bibliography | 319 |
Notes | 333 |
Index | 351 |
Back Cover | 359 |
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Lincoln's Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels and a President's Mission ... Jeffrey Manber,Neil Dahlstrom No preview available - 2005 |
Lincoln's Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels and a President's Mission ... Jeffrey Manber,Neil Dahlstrom No preview available - 2005 |
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