American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It200 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. 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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AMERICAN AURORA: A Democratic-Republican Returns
Nutzerbericht - KirkusHere is a view of America's postrevolutionary era so subversive it makes Gore Vidal look like a traditionalist: John Adams wants to be king, George Washington is a hypocrite, a standing army is a ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
American Aurora: a Democratic-Republican returns: the suppressed history of our nation's beginnings and the heroic newspaper that tried to report it
Nutzerbericht - Not Available - Book VerdictContemporary Americans longing for a return to civility in public life will be quite amazed when they read the press accounts of the early years of the Republic. Independent scholar Rosenfeld, in an ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Inhalt
Reign of Witches | 3 |
Young LighteningRod | 28 |
Black Cockades | 93 |
American Terror | 147 |
The Pestilence | 207 |
FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY | 237 |
Fabius | 242 |
LighteningSnatcher | 312 |
Surgo ut Prosim | 524 |
Kingly Government | 607 |
Keystones of Democracy | 675 |
Upper Chamber | 731 |
RatCatcher | 796 |
Victory | 849 |
Authors Final Note | 906 |
Note on the Illustrations | 909 |
The Duke of Braintree | 352 |
Victory | 394 |
The Right of Man | 456 |
AMERICAN REVOLUTION | 521 |
| 910 | |
| 957 | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It |
| Autor/in | Richard N. Rosenfeld |
| Mitwirkende Personen | Edmund S. Morgan |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | Macmillan, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0312194374, 9780312194376 |
| Länge | 1012 Seiten |
| Zitat exportieren | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |