03774nam 2200721Ia 450 991095760150332120251117084732.097866138960019780252092213025209221X(CKB)2670000000241158(EBL)3414019(SSID)ssj0000745223(PQKBManifestationID)11484340(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000745223(PQKBWorkID)10852112(PQKB)11463092(MiAaPQ)EBC3414019(OCoLC)811409118(MdBmJHUP)muse23922(Au-PeEL)EBL3414019(CaPaEBR)ebr10593691(CaONFJC)MIL389600(OCoLC)923494919(Perlego)2382955(EXLCZ)99267000000024115820020429d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFanatics and fire-eaters newspapers and the coming of the Civil War /Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr1st ed.Urbana University of Illinois Press20031 online resource (xiii, 138 p.)The history of communicationDescription based upon print version of record.9780252072215 0252072219 Includes bibliographical references and index.The emergence of a democratic press -- Impeding civilization: the Brooks-Sumner incident -- The Dred Scott decision and a society of laws -- Kansas and the Lecompton constitution: does the majority rule? -- John Brown's raid: violence in a republican society -- Lincoln's election: could a republican lead the republic? -- Firing on Fort Sumter: a republic at war with itself -- Conclusion: the shattered republic.In the troubled years leading up to the Civil War, newspapers in the North and South presented the arguments for and against slavery, debated the right to secede, and in general denounced opposing viewpoints with imagination and vigor. At the same time, new technologies like railroads and the telegraph lent the debates an immediacy that both enflamed emotions and brought the slavery issue into every home. Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter Jr. look at the power of America's fast-growing media to influence perception and the course of events prior to the Civil War. Drawing on newspaper accounts from across the United States, the authors look at how the media covered-and the public reacted to-major events like the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and the election of 1860. They find not only North-South disputes about the institution of slavery but differing visions of the republic itself-and which region was the true heir to the legacy of the American Revolution. History of communication.JournalismPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPress and politicsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAmerican newspapersHistory19th centuryUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865CausesUnited StatesPolitics and government1849-1861United StatesSocial conditionsTo 1865JournalismPolitical aspectsHistoryPress and politicsHistoryAmerican newspapersHistory973.7/11Ratner Lorman1796950Teeter Dwight L.Jr.,1935-2015.1806184MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957601503321Fanatics and fire-eaters4355215UNINA