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The Sun and the Moon - The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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The Sun and the Moon - The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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On August 26, 1835, a fledgling newspaper called the Sun brought to
New York the first accounts of remarkable lunar discoveries. A
series of six articles reported the existence of life on the
moon,including unicorns, beavers that walked on their hind legs,
and four-foot-tall flying man-bats. In a matter of weeks it was the
most broadly circulated newspaper story of the era, and the Sun , a
working-class upstart, became the most widely read paper in the
world. An exhilarating narrative history of a divided city on the
cusp of greatness, and tale of a crew of writers, editors, and
charlatans who stumbled on a new kind of journalism, The Sun and
the Moon tells the surprisingly true story of the penny papers that
made America a nation of newspaper readers.
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