Outrage, Passion, and Uncommon Sense: How Editorial Writers Have Taken On and Helped Shape the Great American Issues o f the Past 150 Years
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ISBN: 0792241975 / Publisher: National Geographic, April 2005
Here's The New York Times arguing against the vote for women, The Washington Post lamenting that liquor is gone from this nation and will never come back. Here's a courageous Southern editor standing up to readers incensed he ran a photo of the black athlete Jesse Owens. And here's Horace Greeley lecturing Abraham Lincoln.These editorials - selected and explained by a man who himself won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing - are the first commentary on history as it was being made. They show the anguish or war, the divisions of race, the intrigue of politics, the glory of freedom.Culled from newspapers large and small ("The editor of this paper desires to buy a horse," began an editorial in The Emporia Daily Gazette in 1906), they depict America through the ages. It is a history unlike any other, as entertaining as it is informative, as surprising as it is enlightening.
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Mining newspaper files and the deep archives and journalistic expertise of the Newseum, an interactive museum of news located in Washington, D.C., Outrage, Passion and Uncommon Sense examines decisive issues and events in U.S. history through the nation's editorial pages. Approximately fifty editorials are reprinted here on topics ranging from suffrage and race to war and politics—even Christmas—with probing analysis by Gartner."Editorials are the soul of the newspaper," Gartner says in the book's introduction. "Maybe the heart and the soul. And, on a good newspaper that knows and understands and loves its hometown, or its home country, the editorial is the heart and the soul of the town, or the nation, as well."Readers will also see a visual account of the era through two-color illustrations, showcasing editorial cartoons, photographs and typographic details from period newspapers. Outrage, Passion and Uncommon Sense is a vital, significant collection that portrays the undeniable influence one editorial can have on this country in some of its most difficult times.
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