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1 online resource (309 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The World of the Southern Editor; 2. Between Nationalism and Nullification: The Editorial Career of Thomas Ritchie; 3. The Rise of a Metropolitan Giant: The New Orleans Daily Picayune, 1837-1850; 4. The Triumph of Sectional Journalism: The Charleston Daily Courier and CharlestonMercury on the Eve of Secession; 5. A Study of Wartime Journalism: John M. Daniel and the Confederacy; 6. Resisting Reconstruction: John Forsyth and the Mobile Daily Register; 7. Three Giants of New South Journalism: The Formative Years |
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8. Three Giants of the New South: Triumph in the Eighties9. Conclusion: Southern Journalism, from Old South to New South; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
| Summary |
Carl R. Osthaus examines the southern contribution to American Press history, from Thomas Ritchie's mastery of sectional politics and the New Orleans Picayune's popular voice and use of local color, to the emergence of progressive New South editors Henry Watterson, Francis Dawson, and Henry Grady, who imitated, as far as possible, the New Journalism of the 1880s. Unlike black and reform editors who spoke for minorities and the poor, the South's mainstream editors of the nineteenth century advanced the interests of the elite and helped create the myth of southern unity. The southern press diver |
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English |
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Newspaper editors -- Southern States
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Press -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
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Press and politics -- Southern States
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Newspaper editors
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Press
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Press and politics
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Southern States
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813161402 |
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0813161401 |
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1322600562 |
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9781322600567 |
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0813118751 |
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9780813118758 |
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