Contents
Vincent Buranelli
Preface
iii
Foreword by H. V. Kaltenborn
v
Part One. Introduction
1
1.
The Causes of the Trial
3
i.
Peter Zenger
3
ii.
A Colonial Feud
5
iii.
Governor Cosby
8
iv.
The Governor and His Enemies
10
v.
The Administration Newspaper
16
vi.
An Opposition Newspaper
22
vii.
Freedom of the Press
30
viii.
A Newspaper War
32
ix.
Zenger Goes to Jail
35
x.
Van Dam’s Indictment of the Governor
40
xi.
Morris on the London Front
44
xii.
Cosby’s Defeat
47
xiii.
Andrew Hamilton
49
2.
The Meaning of the Trial
52
3.
The Text
68
Part Two.
The Trial
77
1.
Dramatis Personae
79
2.
Preliminaries
80
3.
Pleading
93
4.
Aftermath
133
Appendix I:
The New York Weekly Journal
Covers an Election
135
Appendix II:
Zenger’s Lawyers on the Behavior of His Judges
139
Appendix III:
James Alexander on Freedom of the Press
141
Notes to the Introduction
144
Notes to the Text
145
Suggestions for Further Reading
147
Index
151
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