{"product_id":"newspaper-9781501392177","title":"Newspaper","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewspaper\u003c\/i\u003e is about more than news printed on paper. It brings us inside our best and worst selves, from censorship and the intentional destruction of historic record, to partisan and white supremacist campaigns, to the story of an instrument that has been central to democracy and to holding the powerful to account. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a 400-year history of a nearly-endangered object as seen by journalist Maggie Messitt in the two democratic nations she calls home  the United States and South Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first draft of history, newspapers figure prominently through each movement and period of unrest in both nationsfrom the first colonial papers published by slave traders and an advocate for press freedom to those published on id cards, wallpaper, and folio sheets during civil wars. Offices were set on fire. Presses were pushed into bodies of water. Editors were\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867344613719,"sku":"9781501392177","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501392177.jpg?v=1722282894","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/newspaper-9781501392177","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}