Fanatics and Fire-eaters
Publisher： University of Illinois Press
Publication year： 2003
E-ISBN: 9780252092213
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780252072215
Subject： K712.43 南北战争（1861~1865年）
Keyword： 美洲史
Language： ENG
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Description
During the years just before the Civil War, key newspapers in the United States became true mass media for the first time, reaching American society as never before. Ratner and Teeter examine how this newly acquired power was used and how it exacerbated festering regional issues -- preeminently the issue of slavery -- as newspapers described and characterized some of the key events preceding the outbreak of the Civil War. Tracing political accounts and diatribes published in northern and southern newspapers from 1856 to the shelling of Fort Sumter in 1861, Ratner and Teeter assert that newspapers, in their desire to be profitable and promote specific agendas, stoked the fires that heated tensions between North and South. _x000B_