Description: "The most perceptive and provocative study of the history of the press to appear in some years.... An intelligent and powerful way to think about that central but elusive topic, the power of the press."--Michael Schudson, The Philadelphia Inquirer . "An important and radically new history of American political journalism.... Splendid."-- Los Angeles Times . "A stimulating and imaginative interpretive history.... Scholars of muckraking should find his analysis of the first investigative journalists fascinating.... Offers journalism historians a book that they and their students can argue with, and learn from."-- Journalism History .

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