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Press Gallery : Congress and the Washington Correspondents.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1991Copyright date: ©1991Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (311 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674042780
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Press GalleryDDC classification:
  • 070/.92/273
LOC classification:
  • PN4899
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Gales and Seaton -- 2. Horace Greeley's Washington Correspondents -- 3. Horace White Speculates on the War -- 4. Ben: Perley Poore and the Bohemian Brigade -- 5. Uriah Hunt Painter, Lobbyist -- 6. General Boynton Makes Peace -- 7. James G. Blaine, Journalist and Politician -- 8. Emily Briggs and the Women Correspondents -- 9. The Senate Fires James Rankin Young -- 10. David Barry and the Loyalty of the Senate -- 11. Richard V Oulahan, Bureau Chief -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index.
Summary: In a lively study of the people who covered Congress in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Donald Ritchie profiles many writers who, like Greeley, found the Washington scene alluring and disorienting. Despite adversarial rhetoric and mutual suspicion, close personal relationships have long flourished between members of Congress and the press.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Gales and Seaton -- 2. Horace Greeley's Washington Correspondents -- 3. Horace White Speculates on the War -- 4. Ben: Perley Poore and the Bohemian Brigade -- 5. Uriah Hunt Painter, Lobbyist -- 6. General Boynton Makes Peace -- 7. James G. Blaine, Journalist and Politician -- 8. Emily Briggs and the Women Correspondents -- 9. The Senate Fires James Rankin Young -- 10. David Barry and the Loyalty of the Senate -- 11. Richard V Oulahan, Bureau Chief -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index.

In a lively study of the people who covered Congress in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Donald Ritchie profiles many writers who, like Greeley, found the Washington scene alluring and disorienting. Despite adversarial rhetoric and mutual suspicion, close personal relationships have long flourished between members of Congress and the press.

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