02565nam 22005291 450 991015492390332120200506135228.09780755621125075562112310.5040/9780755621125(CKB)3710000000884827(MiAaPQ)EBC4749873(OCoLC)965167451(UtOrBLW)bpp09265331(UtOrBLW)BP9780755621125BC(EXLCZ)99371000000088482720200603d2015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierOriginal spin Downing Street and the press in Victorian Britain /by Paul BrightonFirst edition.London :I.B. Tauris,2015.1 online resource (284 pages) illustrations9781780760599 1780760590 9780857728142 0857728148 Includes bibliographical references and index."Secret lunches, off-the-record briefings, the leaking of confidential information and tightly-organised media launches - the well-known world of modern political spin. But is this really a new phenomenon or have politicians been manipulating the press for as long as newspapers have existed? In this important new book, Paul Brighton shows that spin is not something dreamed up by modern, media-savvy politicians. In fact, it was one of the best-kept political secrets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From Peel and Palmerston to Gladstone and Disraeli, Prime Ministers have all tried to manipulate the press to a greater or lesser extent. Brighton uncovers the covert contacts between Westminster and Fleet Street and reveals how the Victorian occupants of 10 Downing Street secretly conveyed their viewpoints via the newspapers. For the first time, "Original Spin" tells the whole, unvarnished, story."--Bloomsbury Publishing.Government and the pressGreat BritainHistory19th centuryPress and politicsGreat BritainHistory19th centuryBritish & Irish historyBICGovernment and the pressHistoryPress and politicsHistoryBritish & Irish history.306.2094109034320.0140941Brighton Paul1959-1132934UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910154923903321Original spin2962460UNINA