Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America’s Free Press
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ISBN-13:
9780393245462
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
13.09.2016
Seiten:
368
Autor:
Richard Kluger
Gewicht:
715 g
Format:
241x167x35 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
In 1733, John Peter Zenger scandalised New York by launching a newspaper, The New-York Weekly Journal, which assailed the new British governor as corrupt and arrogant-a direct challenge to the prevailing law against "seditious libel" that criminalised any criticism of the government. Fronting for a group of anti-royalist politicians, Zenger was thrown in jail before his landmark one-day trial on 4 August 1735 where he was brilliantly defended by lawyer Andrew Hamilton. In Indelible Ink, Richard Kluger re-creates the dramatic clash of powerful antagonists that marked the beginning of press freedom in America and its role in vanquishing colonial tyranny. Here is an enduring lesson on the importance of free public expression as the underpinning of democracy.
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