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Scandal and Civility Journalism and the Origins of American Politics Hardcover - 2008

by Marcus Daniel; Marcus Leonard Daniel


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A new breed of journalists came to the fore in post-revolutionary America--fiercely partisan, highly ideological, and possessed of a bold sense of vocation and purpose as they entered the fray of political debate. Often condemned by latter-day historians and widely seen in their own time as a
threat to public and personal civility, these colorful figures emerge in this provocative new book as the era's most important agents of political democracy. Through incisive portraits of the most influential journalists of the 1790s--William Cobbett, Benjamin Franklin Bache, Philip Freneau, Noah Webster, John Fenno, and William Duane--Scandal and Civility moves beyond the usual cast of "revolutionary brothers" and "founding fathers" to offer a fresh
perspective on a seemingly familiar story. Marcus Daniel demonstrates how partisan journalists, both Federalist and Democratic-Republican, were instrumental in igniting and expanding vital debates over the character of political leaders, the nature of representative government, and, ultimately, the
role of the free press itself. Their rejection of civility and self-restraint--not even icons like George Washington were spared their satirical skewerings--earned these men the label "peddlers of scurrility." Yet, as Daniel shows, by breaking with earlier conceptions of "impartial" journalism, they
challenged the elite dominance of political discourse and helped fuel the enormous political creativity of the early republic. Daniel's nuanced and penetrating narrative captures this key period of American history in all its contentious complexity. And in today's climate, when many decry media "excesses" and the relentlessly partisan and personal character of political debate, his book is a timely reminder that discord and
difference were essential to the very creation of our political culture.

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  • Title Scandal and Civility Journalism and the Origins of American Politics
  • Author Marcus Daniel; Marcus Leonard Daniel
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition.
  • Pages 400
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Date August 1, 2008
  • ISBN 9780195172126

About the author


Marcus Daniel is Associate Professor of History at University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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