Printers and Press Freedom: The Ideology of Early American Journalism (1988)

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Format: Trade Paperback

ISBN: 0195064739

Condition: Good

There are scuffs on the cover, and the book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Contents Description:

In the United States, the press has sometimes been described as an unofficial fourth branch of government, a branch which serves as a check on the other three and provides the information necessary for a democracy to function. The basis of this structural rationale for press freedom lies in the political and intellectual experiences of eighteenth-century America, experiences which shaped what is today the world's oldest written constitution still in use. - from the preface