Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper

A narrative history of the American newspaper by Alex Wright, published by Basic Books. It follows the press from colonial printers through the nineteenth-century boom, when the number of papers multiplied, to the syndicates, wire services and media barons of the early twentieth century, profiling the editors, printers, reformers, inventors and hucksters involved.

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