The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty, 1640-1800
- ISBN-10
- 0814756565
- ISBN-13
- 9780814756560
- Category
- Freedom of the press
- Pages
- 239
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-01-01
- Authors
- Richard W. T. Martin, Robert William Thomas Martin
Description
In this work, Robert Martin demonstrates that the history of the "free and open press" is in many ways the story of the emergence and first real expansions of the early American public sphere and civil society itself."--BOOK JACKET.
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