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Journalism : The President and the Press Through Nineteenth-Century Media - David W. Bulla

Journalism

The President and the Press Through Nineteenth-Century Media

By: David W. Bulla

Hardcover | 30 June 2015 | Edition Number 1

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Lincoln Mediated provides new information about a historical figure everyone thinks they know. It describes how Abraham Lincoln worked with the press throughout his political career, beginning with his service in Congress in the late 1840s, and detailing how his ties to newspapers in Illinois, New York, and Washington played a central role in the success of his presidency. Gregory A. Borchard and David W. Bulla study how Lincoln used the press to deliver his written and spoken messages, how editors reacted to the president, and how Lincoln responded to their criticism. Reviewing his public persona through the lens of international media and visually based sources, a fascinating profile emerges.

The authors cite the papers of Lincoln, the letters of influential figures, and content from leading newspapers. The book also features nineteenth-century illustrations and photographs. Lincoln Mediated ties the president''s story directly to the press, illuminating his role as a writer and as a participant in making the news. Lincoln''s legacy cannot be understood without understanding the role the press played in helping shape how he was viewed. As the authors show, Lincoln was a man, not just a political figure. Lincoln Mediated is a worthy addition to Transaction''s Journalism series.

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"We have never heard the voice of Abraham Lincoln but we can hear his voice, as did journalists of his era at the memorial service after Gettysburg, and we can feel Lincoln's deep concern as he sought a successful general, before he picked U.S. Grant, to take on Robert E. Lee. We know Lincoln intimately as a member of our first families of history because journalists relayed his deceptively--complex story to us directly at the time, and since then, via historians. This book is about those important journalistic witnesses. Lincoln's story is also their story ... and ours." - Donald L. Shaw, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 93, 2 (June 2016)

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