American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It200 Years ago a Philadelphia newspaper claimed George Washington wasn't the "father of his country." It claimed John Adams really wanted to be king. Its editors were arrested by the federal government. One editor died awaiting trial. The story of this newspaper is the story of America. In this monumental story of two newspaper editors whom Presidents Washington and Adams sought to jail for sedition, American Aurora offers a new and heretical vision of this nation's beginnings, from the vantage point of those who fought in the American Revolution to create a democracy--and lost. |
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Contenido
Reign of Witches | 3 |
Young LighteningRod | 28 |
Black Cockades | 93 |
American Terror | 147 |
The Pestilence | 207 |
FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY | 237 |
Fabius | 242 |
LighteningSnatcher | 312 |
Surgo ut Prosim | 524 |
Kingly Government | 607 |
Keystones of Democracy | 675 |
Upper Chamber | 731 |
RatCatcher | 796 |
Victory | 849 |
Authors Final Note | 906 |
Note on the Illustrations | 909 |
The Duke of Braintree | 352 |
Victory | 394 |
The Right of Man | 456 |
AMERICAN REVOLUTION | 521 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It |
| Autor | Richard N. Rosenfeld |
| Colaborador | Edmund S. Morgan |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | Macmillan, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0312194374, 9780312194376 |
| Largo | 1012 páginas |
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