Description: Shore focuses on the Appeal to Reason, the flagship newspaper of J.A. Wayland's publishing empire. The Appeal belongs equally to the history of radicalism and to the history of journalism. Shore examines it from both perspectives. He has presented here for the first time the inner workings of the socialist press.
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"In examining the only mass circulation socialist newspaper in America, Shore illuminates the indigenous political and cultural roots of the socialist movement and aids us in understanding central aspects of the American political tradition."--Nick Salvatore, author of Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
"A sensitive, moving book. Shore's study is a vital chapter in the history of American literature and journalism as well as American radicalism--with peculiar relevance to our own times."--Sean Wilentz, author of Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850