Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents
Harvard University Press, 1991
Paper: 978-0-674-70376-6 | eISBN: 978-0-674-04278-0 | Cloth: 978-0-674-70375-9
Library of Congress Classification PN4899.W3R58 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 070.92273
Paper: 978-0-674-70376-6 | eISBN: 978-0-674-04278-0 | Cloth: 978-0-674-70375-9
Library of Congress Classification PN4899.W3R58 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 070.92273
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Donald Ritchie examines the lives of early, self-styled congressional journalists such as Horace Greeley, Emily Briggs, Benjamin Perley Poore, Jane Grey Swisshelm, Horace White, James G. Blaine, and others who were positioned in the hub of government when the Civil War, the purchase of Alaska, the Crédit Mobilier scandal, and the Johnson impeachment hearings were making front-page news. Rich in anecdote, this lively book illuminates an important era of journalism and American history. The nascent issues of censorship, right to privacy, and conflict of interest that it describes are still very much with us.
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