{"product_id":"the-selling-of-the-constitutional-convention-a-history-of-news-coverage-culture-9780945612155","title":"The Selling of the Constitutional Convention A","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a fascinating analysis of news management in the 1780s that sheds new light on the role of the press in early America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInteresting, informative, and valuable new light on the ratification process. [An] essential reference source. -- Jackson Turner Main, author of The Anti-Federalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788\u003cbr\u003eAn important addition to the history of the Constitution and of American journalism. . . . Newspaper warfare over the Constitution began during, not after, the Convention. -- Dwight L. Teeter, Jr., Professor of Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\u003cbr\u003eJohn K. Alexander offers a revealing analysis of how journalists treated a momentous news event enveloped in secrecy and how the idea of inventing a new political system was made attractive. -- Jeffrey A. Smith, author of Printers and Press Freedom: The Ideology of Early American Journalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Short Titles and Symbols Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 \"We Are No Longer United States\": Looking to the Convention Chapter 5 \"The Collective Wisdom of the Continent\": The Convention Opens Chapter 6 \"We Expect Something Great\": Projecting the Image of Unity Chapter 7 \"Prepared To Receive With Respect\": Selling the Unknown Chapter 8 \"An Opposition Will Shew Itself\": Anticipating the Constitution Chapter 9 Conclusion Chapter 10 Appendix 1: Short Title List for Newspapers and Magazines, 1787 Chapter 11 Appendix 2: Note on Methodology Chapter 12 Index","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039134613847,"sku":"9780945612155","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780945612155.jpg?v=1750942688","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-selling-of-the-constitutional-convention-a-history-of-news-coverage-culture-9780945612155","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}