CHAPTER | | PAGE |
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 |