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The Western Press in the Crucible of the American Civil War (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Western Press in the Crucible of the American Civil War (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Mediating American History, 19
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Although the American Civil War has received extensive scholarly
attention in the 150+ years since its conclusion, far less
scholarly work has been devoted to western newspapers and their
experiences of that bloody conflict. This first volume of a
two-volume set reveals that the West was not immune from the war's
battles, military recruitment, national anxieties, or partisan
infighting. The Western Press in the Crucible of the American Civil
War explores how editors throughout the region (from the Great
Plains to the Pacific Coast) responded to secession, the war, and
its immediate aftermath. This edited volume examines editors'
outspoken partisanship (including political feuds), their
newsgathering techniques, their financial concerns, and their
responses to wartime press censorship. The book also reveals how
the war was reported in the western press, while also casting a
light on reporting of home front issues. This first volume reveals
the financial and editorial lengths that editors went to in order
to meet readers' demands for war and home front news across a vast
region where infrastructure was poor and news, therefore, was often
slow to arrive. The second volume, The Midwestern Press in the
Crucible of the American Civil War, focuses on the press in the
midwestern United States.
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