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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784560403321

Autore

Smith Jeffery Alan

Titolo

Franklin and Bache : envisioning the enlightened republic / / Jeffery A. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1990

©1990

ISBN

0-19-771317-3

1-280-52364-6

0-19-536350-7

1-60129-720-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

973.3/092/2

Soggetti

Journalists - United States

Journalism - United States - History - 18th century

United States Politics and government 1783-1809

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-214) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. The Pursuit of the Common Good; 2. The Science of Doing Good; 3. Educating the Enlightened Child; 4. Making the Republican Citizen; 5. Newspapers for the New Nation; 6. World Revolution and American Reform; 7. Defending the Democrats; 8. Conclusion: Finding the Future; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

The intense ideological conflict of the 1790's is illustrated in this study of the education and career of Benjamin Franklin Bache. Trained as a journalist by his grandfather, Benjamin Franklin, Bache became the leading polemical Jeffersonian journalist of the period.