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Burns is a good writer. - Goodreads Bad writing, shoddy research. - Goodreads My second complaint is the writing. - Goodreads Review: Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American JournalismUser Review - Ede - GoodreadsAn interesting account of the early days of American journalism (and politics) but the storytelling is too distracted and sometimes quite superficial. The author does not go too far to give some ... Read full review Review: Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American JournalismUser Review - Thom Kahler - GoodreadsSometimes it's easy to forget--if you ever learned--the political stances that shaped early American journalism. Here you have a narrative of how they originated, shifted, and shaped the country. Read full review Related books
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