Scandal and Civility: Journalism and the Birth of American Democracy - Paperback

by Marcus Daniel (Author)

A new breed of journalists came to the fore in post-revolutionary America--fiercely partisan, highly ideological, and possessed of a bold sense of vocation and purpose as they entered the fray of political debate. Often condemned by latter-day historians and widely seen in their own time as a threat to public and personal civility, these colorful figures emerge in this provocative new book as the era's most important agents of political democracy.

Author Biography

Marcus Daniel is Associate Professor of History at University of Hawaii at Manoa.