Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels and a President's Mission to Destroy the Press
by
Neil Dahlstrom, Jeffrey Manber
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
In the blistering summer of 1861, President Lincoln began pressuring and ordering the physical shutdown of any Northern newspaper that voiced opposition to the war. These attacks were sometimes carried out by soldiers, sometimes by angry mobs under cover of darkness. Either way, the effect was a complete...