All the News Unfit to Print: How Things Were... and How They Were Reported

History

Eric Burns

Americas

wiley

This witty exploration of the most volatile period in the history of the American press tells of how the era s raucous journalism was essential in creating a lasting nation. Includes: Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, & Sam Adams -- all leading journalists; George Washington & John Adams, the leading disdainers of journalists; & Thomas Jefferson, the leading manipulator of journalists. Also includes the incendiary James Franklin, Ben s brother & one of the first muckrakers; the high-minded Thomas Paine; the hatchet man James Callender; & a rebellious crowd of pamphleteers & publishers. The participants publicly aired the issues that would lead America to declare its independence &, after the war, determine what sort of nation it would be.

Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Public Affairs

Paw Prints

<p>One of the most dynamic eras in American history, the 1920s began with a watershed year that would set the tone for the century to follow.The Roaring Twenties is the only decade in American history with a widely applied nickname, and our collective fascination with this era continues. But how did this surge of innovation and cultural milestones emerge out of the ashes of World War I?Acclaimed author Eric Burns investigates the year 1920, which was not only a crucial twelve-month period of its own, but one that foretold the future. 1920 foreshadowed the rest of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first, whether it was Sacco and Vanzetti or the stock market crash that brought this era to a close.Burns sets the record straight about this most misunderstood and iconic of periods. Despite being the first full year of armistice, 1920 was not a peaceful period--it contained the greatest act of terrorism in American history to that time. And while 1920 is thought of as the beginning of a prosperous era, for most people life had never been more unaffordable. Meanwhile, African Americans were putting their stamp on culture. And though people today imagine the frivolous image of the flapper dancing the night away, the truth was that a new kind of power had been bestowed on women, and it had nothing to do with the dance floor.From prohibition to immigration, the birth of jazz, the rise of expatriate literature, and the original Ponzi scheme, 1920 was truly a year like no other.</p>

1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

[Read by Traber Burns]Never has a more exuberant man been our nation's leader. He became a war hero, reformed the NYPD, busted the largest railroad and oil trusts, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and built the Panama Canal-- to name a few of his accomplishments. But the cause he championed the hardest, America's entry into WWI, would ultimately defeat him. His youngest son, Quentin, his favorite, would die in an air fight. The Roosevelts were a family of pillow fights and pranks, but it was Quentin, the frailest son, who had worried his father the most. Looking at Theodore's relationship with his son and understanding him as a father can tell us something new about this larger-than-life man.

The Golden Lad: The Haunting Story of Theodore and Quentin Roosevelt

Historical

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