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Article: Hated Ideas And the American Civil War Press.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Internet Bookwatch
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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Hated Ideas And the American Civil War Press
Hazel Dicken-Garcia & Giovanna Dell'Orto
Marquette Books LLC
5915 South Regal Street, Suite B-118, Spokane, WA 99223
978092293888, $39.95 www.marquettebooks.com
Co-authored by Hazel Dicken-Garcia (Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota) and journalism/free speech researcher Giovanna Dell'Orto, "Hated Ideas And the American Civil War Press" presents a detailed and comprehensive analysis of newspaper coverage of such controversial subjects as abolitionism and slavery during the period of the American Civil War. The basic findings are that the Civil War ...