Binding Tight Pages Clean Light Edge Wear.

Binding Tight Pages Clean Light Edge Wear.

Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 988 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.

Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 988 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.

New York. 1997. St Martin's Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

New York. 1997. St Martin's Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0312150520. Foreword by Edmund S. Morgan. 989 pages. hardcover. Jacket Design by Henry Sene Yee. keywords: America History Journalism. FROM THE PUBLISHER-One of the most original and radical works of American history in recent years. American Aurora is the absorbing story of the nation's leading opposition newspaper from 1790 through 1800. Richard Rosenfeld's dramatic epic traces the incendiary history of the young American nation in the 1790s, and chronicles the birth and near-death of civil liberties in that turbulent decade. Rosenfeld, who has exhaustively examined the Philadelphia Aurora, has chosen as his heroes its two young editors, Benjamin Bache, Benjamin Franklin's grandson, and William Duane, who fearlessly waged a decade-long campaign to keep Americas Founding Fathers true to their original mission. They claimed that George Washington was not the true ‘father of his country. ' but a completely incompetent commander-in-chief, and that John Adams, his presidential successor, wanted a monarchy and was plotting to be king. As a result of their inflammatory articles, both editors were arrested. Bache died awaiting trial, and the paper was briefly silenced. Nonetheless, the Aurora was eventually successful in persuading the nation to oust Adams and to usher in a Jeffersonian democracy, of which Benjamin Franklin, the true father of our country, could only dream. Revisionist, daring and brilliantly conceived, this is a work of enormous power that indisputably rewrites the early history of our nation and champions the civil liberties on which the country was founded. inventory #24154.

Hardcover. 988 pp. with index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Absorbing story of

Hardcover. 988 pp. with index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Absorbing story of the nation's leading opposition radical newspaper from 1790-1800. Founded and published by Benjamin Bache (Benjamin Franklin's grandson) and William Duane, the publication's avowed object was to keep America's Founding Fathers true to their original mission. To that end Bache and Duane embraced emerging Jeffersonian republicanism, attacked George Washington as an incompetent commander-in-chief and attacked John Adams as a monarchist. Both editors were arrested under the Sedition Acts.