Allan Nevins

PREFACE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER ONE HAMILTON AND THE FOUNDING OF THE "EVENING POST"

CHAPTER TWO THE EVENING POST AS LEADER OF THE FEDERALIST PRESS

CHAPTER THREE THE CITY AND THE "EVENING POST'S" PLACE IN IT

CHAPTER FOUR LITERATURE AND DRAMA IN THE EARLY "EVENING POST"

CHAPTER FIVE BRYANT BECOMES EDITOR OF THE "EVENING POST"

CHAPTER SIX WILLIAM LEGGETT ACTING EDITOR; DEPRESSION, RIVALRY, AND THREATENED RUIN

CHAPTER SEVEN THE RISE OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION; THE MEXICAN WAR

CHAPTER EIGHT NEW YORK BECOMES A METROPOLIS; CENTRAL PARK

CHAPTER NINE LITERARY ASPECTS OF BRYANT'S NEWSPAPER, 1830 - 1855

CHAPTER TEN JOHN BIGELOW AS AN EDITOR OF THE "EVENING POST"

CHAPTER ELEVEN HEATED POLITICS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR

CHAPTER TWELVE THE NEW YORK PRESS AND SOUTHERN SECESSION

CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE CRITICAL DAYS OF THE CIVIL WAR

CHAPTER FOURTEEN RECONSTRUCTION AND IMPEACHMENT

CHAPTER FIFTEEN BRYANT AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS FAME AS EDITOR

CHAPTER SIXTEEN APARTMENT HOUSES RISE AND TWEED FALLS

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN INDEPENDENCE IN POLITICS: THE ELECTIONS OF '72 AND '76

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN TWO REBEL LITERARY EDITORS

CHAPTER NINETEEN WARFARE WITHIN THE OFFICE: PARKE GODWIN'S EDITORSHIP

CHAPTER TWENTY THE VILLARD PURCHASE: CARL SCHURZ EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE GODKIN, THE MUGWUMP MOVEMENT, AND GROVER CLEVELAND'S CAREER

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO GODKIN'S WAR WITHOUT QUARTER UPON TAMMANY

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE FREE SILVER, THE SPANISH WAR, AND IMPERIALISM

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR CHARACTERISTICS OF A FIGHTING EDITOR: E. L. GODKIN

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE NEWS, LITERATURE, MUSIC, AND DRAMA, 1880 - 1900

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX HORACE WHITE, ROLLO OGDEN, AND THE "EVENING POST" SINCE 1900

INDEX

Transcriber's Notes

Transcriber’s Note

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THE EVENING POST

THE EVENING POST
A Century of Journalism

ALLAN NEVINS

The journalists are now the true kings and clergy; henceforth historians, unless they are fools, must write not of Bourbon dynasties, and Tudors, and Hapsburgs; but of stamped, broadsheet dynasties, and quite new successive names, according as this or the other able editor, or combination of able editors, gains the world’s ear.—Sartor Resartus.

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