The Tyranny of Printers: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic Book

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	A Note on Conventions and Methods
1	The Newspaper-Based Political System of the Nineteenth-Century United States	1
2	The Printing Trade in Early American Politics	24
3	The Two National Gazettes and the Beginnings of Newspaper Politics	48
4	Benjamin Franklin Bache and the Price of Partisanship	79
5	The Background and Failure of the Sedition Act	105
6	Charles Holt's Generation: From Commercial Printers to Political Professionals	132
7	The Expansion of the Republican Newspaper Network, 1798-1800	153
8	A Presence in the Public Sphere: William Duane and the Triumph of Newspaper Politics	176
9	The New Conventional Wisdom: Consolidating and Expanding a Newspaper-Based Political System	196
10	The Federalists Strike Back	229
11	Improving on the Sedition Act: Press Freedom and Political Culture after 1800	258
12	The "Tyranny of Printers" in Jeffersonian Philadelphia	285
13	Ordinary Editors and Everyday Politics: How the System Worked	320
14	Newspaper Editors and the Reconstruction of Party Politics	348
App. 1	Charts on the Growth of the American Press	401
App. 2	The Sedition Act and the Expansion of the Republican Press	407
	Notes	411
	Selected Bibliography	467
	Index	499