Fanatics and Fire-Eaters - Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War

Informationen zum Autor Lorman A. Ratner was a professor of history, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, and director of the Center of Multicultural Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dwight L. Teeter Jr. was a professor of journalism and electronic media and former dean of the College of Communications at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Klappentext In the troubled years leading up to the Civil War, newspapers in the North and South presented the arguments for and against slavery, debated the right to secede, and disputed the Dred Scott decision, denouncing opposing viewpoints with imagination and vigor. Although it is impossible to determine the precise effect of the newspapers on their readers, there is no question that they took the temperature of their communities and recorded the rising local agitations, unifying opinions, raising alarms, and cementing prejudices. Now in paperback for the first time, Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight Teeter's Fanatics & Fire-Eatersably demonstrates the power of a fast-growing media to influence both perception and the course of events. Zusammenfassung Traces the role of America's newspapers in the country's descent into war.

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• Authors: Lorman A Ratner, Lorman A. Ratner, Lorman A. Teeter Ratner, Lorman A. Teeter Jr. Ratner, Lorman A./ Teeter Ratner, Lorman Teeter Ratner, Dwight L. Teeter, Dwight L Teeter Jr, Dwight L. Teeter Jr, Dwight L. Teeter Jr.
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.2004
• EAN: 9780252072215
• ISBN: 978-0-252-07221-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: History of Communication; History of Communication (Pape; History of Communication; History of Communication (Pape; The History of Media and Communication; The History of Media and Commu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous