Empire of ink the printers, rogues, and radicals who invented the American newspaper
"No society had ever generated so much ink and paper in so little time. Between the Revolutionary War and the dawn of the twentieth century, the number of American newspapers increased five hundredfold, producing the greatest outpouring of printed matter the world had ever seen. In Empire of Ink, Al...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2026.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The printer's devil
- Introduction
- Part I: A paper nation. Treading the pelts
- Knights of the scissors
- Communities of the unseen
- Engines of abundance
- Part II: "Every man his own printer". Paths to perdition
- A tramp at home
- Hot blood, cold type
- "The prayer of twenty millions"
- The greenhorn brigade
- A shirt-tail full of type
- Part III: Amassing the media. Ghost editors
- Cocaine cough drops and other cures
- Twilight of the velocipede
- The music begins
- Epilogue: Information empires.
