| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Canada and the United States

Jeffrey L. Pasley. "The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic. (Jeffersonian America.) Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 2001. Pp. xviii, 517. $37.50.

Past is prologue; winners write the history; journalism is the first draft of history. Taken together, these three clichés explain much about the traditional historiography of American journalism. From the days of Isaiah Thomas, a firebrand editor in 1775 turned gentleman historian by 1810, the early histories of American journalism were written by successful editors and publishers who could discern in their own work the culmination of historical destiny. Frederic Hudson, who published the first comprehensive history of American newspapers in 1873, laid out a periodization scheme that shaped all subsequent histories. For Hudson, the great story was the transition from political party press to modern, independent, commercial press. The key period of transition was the 1830s, and the key historical actor was James Gordon Bennett, founder of the New York Herald. Should we be surprised to learn that Hudson served Bennett for decades as managing editor of the Herald? . . .

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