Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-405) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the rise of a nineteenth-century radical press -- Socialists: national periodicals in the heartland -- Dailies: socialists take on the mainstream press -- Bombs and bombast: trials of socialist newspapers -- Cacophony: from a "one-hoss boss" to a party boss in the socialist press -- Wobblies: journalism as direct action by the industrial workers of the world -- Anarchy! imagining a world without hierarchy -- The intellectuals: Wilshire's, the masses, and the lyrical left -- "The black man's burden": race and the radical press -- "What every woman should know": women and the radical press -- Suppression: silencing the radical press during World War I.
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