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Nord, David Paul. Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers.(Book review)

Nord, David Paul. Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 293. ISBN 978-0-252-07404-2 (pb.) $20.00. (New in paperback; original hardbound edition, 2001).

Step into a standard American media history course and you'll meet John Peter Zenger, heroic crusader against seditious libel; encounter William Lloyd Garrison, the anti-slavery zealot who put out a newspaper almost on the side; and find nearly all the newspaper examples have New York mastheads. As a Midwesterner, I sometimes wonder about what was going on in the rest of the country.

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