Froth & scum : truth, beauty, goodness, and the ax murder in America's first mass medium / Andie Tucher.
Two notorious antebellum New York murder cases - a prostitute slashed in an elegant brothel and a tradesman bludgeoned by the brother of inventor Samuel Colt - set off journalistic scrambles over the meanings of truth, objectivity, and the duty of the press that reverberate to this day. In 1833 an e...
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| Alternate Title: | Froth and scum |
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1994. |
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