| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Book Review

American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns. The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It. By Richard N. Rosenfeld. (New York: St. Martin's, 1997. xvi, 988 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 0-312-15052-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-312-19437-4.)

This is a big, bold book that is unconventional in style, method, and substance. It even has two subtitles: the second, The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It. 1

Richard N. Rosenfeld's subject is actually much broader than the Aurora, the daily Philadelphia newspaper founded in 1790 by the young Benjamin Franklin Bache. This author not only reports the vicious political battles between Federalists and Republicans at the end of the 1790s but, by adopting the persona of William Duane, Bache's assistant and successor, becomes himself a violent partisan in the Republican cause. You can see that he means it. . . .

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