Fanatics and fire-eaters : newspapers and the coming of the Civil War

The Resource Fanatics and fire-eaters : newspapers and the coming of the Civil War
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Fanatics and fire-eaters : newspapers and the coming of the Civil War
Title remainder
newspapers and the coming of the Civil War
Statement of responsibility
Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr
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Language
eng
Summary
  • "During the years just before the Civil War, key newspapers in the United States became true mass media for the first time, reaching American society, North and South, as never before. In Fanatics and Fire-eaters, Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr., examine how this newly acquired power was used and how it exacerbated festering regional issues - preeminently the issue of slavery - as newspapers described and characterized some of the key events preceding the outbreak of the Civil War."
  • "Using a finely honed analysis of specific events, from the Brooks-Sumner incident to the attack on Fort Sumter, the book provides a thorough and colorful background of the descent into war. Tracing political accounts and diatribes published in northern and southern newspapers from 1856 to the shelling of Fort Sumter in 1861, Ratner and Teeter assert that newspapers, in their desire to be profitable and promote specific agendas, stoked the fires that heated tensions between North and South."--Jacket
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DLC
Dewey number
973.7/11
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Index
index present
LC call number
E459
LC item number
.R3125 2003
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
The history of communication
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