Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper

A sweeping history of America’s first media revolution: the rise of the newspaper, and the transformation of a fledgling republic into the world’s first information superpower.

“Takes us beyond the familiar New York papers and editors to a whole continent bursting with the thirst for news. A wonderful read.” —Andrew Pettegree, coauthor of The Library

No society had ever generated so much ink and paper in so little time. Between the Revolutionary War and the dawn of the twentieth century, th...