The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism

About this eBook

Author

Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971

Credits

Produced by ellinora, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

New York post

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 59857

Release Date

July 5, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE EVENING POST
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.CHAPTER ONE HAMILTON AND THE FOUNDING OF THE “EVENING POST” — II
6. 6.CHAPTER TWO THE EVENING POST AS LEADER OF THE FEDERALIST PRESS — II — III
7. 7.CHAPTER THREE THE CITY AND THE “EVENING POST’S” PLACE IN IT — II
8. 8.CHAPTER FOUR LITERATURE AND DRAMA IN THE EARLY “EVENING POST”
9. 9.CHAPTER FIVE BRYANT BECOMES EDITOR OF THE “EVENING POST”
10. 10.CHAPTER SIX WILLIAM LEGGETT ACTING EDITOR; DEPRESSION, RIVALRY, AND THREATENED RUIN — II — III
11. 11.CHAPTER SEVEN THE RISE OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION; THE MEXICAN WAR — II — III — IV
12. 12.CHAPTER EIGHT NEW YORK BECOMES A METROPOLIS; CENTRAL PARK — II
13. 13.CHAPTER NINE LITERARY ASPECTS OF BRYANT’S NEWSPAPER, 1830–1855
14. 14.CHAPTER TEN JOHN BIGELOW AS AN EDITOR OF THE “EVENING POST”
15. 15.CHAPTER ELEVEN HEATED POLITICS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR
16. 16.CHAPTER TWELVE THE NEW YORK PRESS AND SOUTHERN SECESSION
17. 17.CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE CRITICAL DAYS OF THE CIVIL WAR — II — III — IV
18. 18.CHAPTER FOURTEEN RECONSTRUCTION AND IMPEACHMENT
19. 19.CHAPTER FIFTEEN BRYANT AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS FAME AS EDITOR
20. 20.CHAPTER SIXTEEN APARTMENT HOUSES RISE AND TWEED FALLS — II
21. 21.CHAPTER SEVENTEEN INDEPENDENCE IN POLITICS: THE ELECTIONS OF ’72 AND ’76 — II
22. 22.CHAPTER EIGHTEEN TWO REBEL LITERARY EDITORS
23. 23.CHAPTER NINETEEN WARFARE WITHIN THE OFFICE: PARKE GODWIN’S EDITORSHIP
24. 24.CHAPTER TWENTY THE VILLARD PURCHASE: CARL SCHURZ EDITOR-IN-CHIEF — II
25. 25.CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE GODKIN, THE MUGWUMP MOVEMENT, AND GROVER CLEVELAND’S CAREER — II
26. 26.CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO GODKIN’S WAR WITHOUT QUARTER UPON TAMMANY
27. 27.CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE FREE SILVER, THE SPANISH WAR, AND IMPERIALISM — II — III
28. 28.CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR CHARACTERISTICS OF A FIGHTING EDITOR: E. L. GODKIN — II
29. 29.CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE NEWS, LITERATURE, MUSIC, AND DRAMA, 1880–1900
30. 30.CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX HORACE WHITE, ROLLO OGDEN, AND THE “EVENING POST” SINCE 1900
31. 31.INDEX
32. 32.Transcriber’s Notes

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