American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It

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St. Martin's Press, 25.11.2014 - 1012 Seiten

200 Years ago a Philadelphia newspaper claimed George Washington wasn't the "father of his country." It claimed John Adams really wanted to be king. Its editors were arrested by the federal government. One editor died awaiting trial.

The story of this newspaper is the story of America.

THE AMERICAN HISTORY WE WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO KNOW
In this monumental story of two newspaper editors whom Presidents Washington and Adams sought to jail for sedition, American Aurora offers a new and heretical vision of this nation's beginnings, from the vantage point of those who fought in the American Revolution to create a democracy--and lost.

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AURORA
1
FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY
237
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
521
Authors Final Note
906
Note on the Illustrations
909
Endnotes
910
Index
957

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Autoren-Profil (2014)

Richard Neil Rosenfeld, the son and grandson of printers, was born in Boston in 1941. He is an independent scholar who lives in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from Yale, Columbia, and Boston Universities, is a Councillor at American Antiquarian Society, and is an Associate Fellow at Yale's Timothy Dwight College.

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