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I. Hamilton and the Founding of the “Evening Post” 9
II. The “Evening Post” as Leader of the Federalist Press 35
III. The City and the “Evening Post’s” Place in It 63
IV. Literature and Drama in the Early “Evening Post” 96
V. Bryant Becomes Editor 121
VI. William Leggett Acting Editor: Depression, Rivalry, and Threatened Ruin 139
VII. The Rise of the Slavery Question: the Mexican War 166
VIII. New York Becomes a Metropolis: Central Park 192
IX. Literary Aspects of Bryant’s Newspaper, 1830–1855 207
X. John Bigelow as an Editor of the “Evening Post” 228
XI. Heated Politics Before the Civil War 242
XII. The New York Press and Southern Secession 267
XIII. The Critical Days of the Civil War 284
XIV. Reconstruction and Impeachment 326
XV. Bryant at the Height of His Fame as Editor 338
XVI. Apartment Houses Rise and Tweed Falls 364
XVII. Independence in Politics: the Elections of ’72 and ’76 389
XVIII. Two Rebel Literary Editors 406
XIX. Warfare Within the Office: Parke Godwin’s Editorship 420
XX. The Villard Purchase: Carl Schurz Editor-in-Chief 438
XXI. Godkin, the Mugwump Movement, and Grover Cleveland’s Career 458
XXII. Godkin’s War Without Quarter Upon Tammany 476
XXIII. Opposing the Spanish War and Silver Craze 496
XXIV. Characteristics of a Fighting Editor: E.L. Godkin 519
XXV. News, Literature, Music, and Drama 1880–1900 546
XXVI. Horace White, Rollo Ogden, and the “Evening Post” Since 1900 568
Index 581

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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