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First to Fall
- Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery
Engelsk Paperback
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First to Fall
- Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery
Engelsk Paperback

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A vividly told tale of a forgotten American hero—an impassioned newsman who fought for the right to speak out against slavery. 

The history of the fight for free press has never been more vital in our own time, when journalists are targeted as “enemies of the people.” In this brilliant and rigorously researched history, award-winning journalist and author Ken Ellingwood animates the life and times of abolitionist newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy.

First to Fall illuminates this flawed yet heroic figure who made the ultimate sacrifice while fighting for free press rights in a time when the First Amendment offered little protection for those who dared to critique America’s “peculiar institution.”

Culminating in Lovejoy’s dramatic clashes with the pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois—who were destroying printing press after printing press—First to Fall will bring Lovejoy, his supporters and his enemies to life during the raucous 1830s at the edge of slave country. It was a bloody period of innovation, conflict, violent politics, and painful soul-searching over pivotal issues of morality and justice.

In the tradition of books like The Arc of JusticeFirst to Fall elevates a compelling, socially urgent narrative that has never received the attention it deserves. The book will aim to do no less than rescue Lovejoy from the footnotes of history and restore him as a martyr whose death was not only a catalyst for widespread abolitionist action, but also inaugurated the movement toward the free press protections we cherish so dearly today.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9781639364619
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1639364617
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
13 jun 2023
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
212mm
Højde:
138mm
Forlag:
Pegasus Books
Oplagsdato:
13 jun 2023
Forfatter(e):
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