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Canada and the United States

Ezra Greenspan. George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher. (Penn State Series in the History of the Book.) University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2000. Pp. xv, 510. $45.00.

Print culture in the United States expanded dramatically in the nineteenth century, fueled by improvements in technology and transportation, high literacy rates, and broad public interest in news and literary culture. Cheap newspapers and both fiction and nonfiction books enjoyed great popularity, setting sales records and prompting observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville to marvel that Americans were inveterate and insatiable readers. . . .

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