For the Glory of the Union: Myth, Reality, and the Media in Civil War New JerseyFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984 - 231 pages American newspapers during the War Between the States were intensely partisan and reported the war news with strong biases. This intriguing study in the manipulation of the news follows the account of the military adventures of the Twenty-Sixth New Jersey Infantry, a nine-month volunteer regiment raised in and around Newark. |
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... newspaper and the “ prejudice ” that ruled its columns . There is general agree- ment that publishers and editors for the most part lacked any genuine concern for the truth so long as what they printed sold newspapers and served their ...
... newspaper and the “ prejudice ” that ruled its columns . There is general agree- ment that publishers and editors for the most part lacked any genuine concern for the truth so long as what they printed sold newspapers and served their ...
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... newspaper we read may be somewhat more subtle but , to use Lapham's word , the media is as " artful " as ever . Then as now , a newspaper could “ lend its voice to the pieties of the age ” —or at least those “ pieties ” currently in ...
... newspaper we read may be somewhat more subtle but , to use Lapham's word , the media is as " artful " as ever . Then as now , a newspaper could “ lend its voice to the pieties of the age ” —or at least those “ pieties ” currently in ...
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... newspaper collection is the chief source of this work . Hopefully , some of the " spirit " of Civil War New Jersey entombed in those brittle , yellowed pages has now been set free . A brief comment is in order regarding my treatment of ...
... newspaper collection is the chief source of this work . Hopefully , some of the " spirit " of Civil War New Jersey entombed in those brittle , yellowed pages has now been set free . A brief comment is in order regarding my treatment of ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Northernmost of the Border States | 15 |
True Patriotism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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