Mobtown Massacre: Alexander Hanson and the Baltimore Newspaper War of 1812

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• Josh S. Cutler

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• 224 Seiten
• 8 Lesestunden

• Geografie
• Historisches Thema
• Karten & Reisen
• Politikwissenschaft
• Weltgeschichte

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With a bitterly divided nation plunged into the War of 1812, a fiery young Federalist editor named Alexander Hanson risked his life to defend a newspaper that dared express unpopular views.His words provoked a violent standoff that crippled the city of Baltimore and left Hanson beaten within an inch of his life. This little-known episode in American history - complete with a midnight jailbreak, bloodthirsty mobs and unspeakable acts of torture - helped shape the course of war, the Federalist Party and the nation's very notion of the freedom of the press. Josh Cutler's history of the Mobtown Massacre offers a lesson in liberty that reverberates today.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Einband: Paperback