American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It

Richard N. Rosenfeld

Macmillan, Sep 15, 1998 - History - 1012 pages

200 Years ago a Philadelphia newspaper claimed George Washington wasn't the "father of his country." It claimed John Adams really wanted to be king. Its editors were arrested by the federal government. One editor died awaiting trial.

The story of this newspaper is the story of America.

In this monumental story of two newspaper editors whom Presidents Washington and Adams sought to jail for sedition, American Aurora offers a new and heretical vision of this nation's beginnings, from the vantage point of those who fought in the American Revolution to create a democracy--and lost.

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AMERICAN AURORA: A Democratic-Republican Returns

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Here is a view of America's postrevolutionary era so subversive it makes Gore Vidal look like a traditionalist: John Adams wants to be king, George Washington is a hypocrite, a standing army is a ...

American Aurora: a Democratic-Republican returns: the suppressed history of our nation's beginnings and the heroic newspaper that tried to report it

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Contemporary Americans longing for a return to civility in public life will be quite amazed when they read the press accounts of the early years of the Republic. Independent scholar Rosenfeld, in an ...

Contents

• Reign of Witches: 3
• Young LighteningRod: 28
• Black Cockades: 93
• American Terror: 147
• The Pestilence: 207
• FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY: 237
• Fabius: 242
• LighteningSnatcher: 312
• The Duke of Braintree: 352
• Victory: 394
• The Right of Man: 456
• AMERICAN REVOLUTION: 521
• Surgo ut Prosim: 524
• Kingly Government: 607
• Keystones of Democracy: 675
• Upper Chamber: 731
• RatCatcher: 796
• Victory: 849
• Authors Final Note: 906
• Note on the Illustrations: 909
• Endnotes: 910
• Index: 957

About the author

Richard Neil Rosenfeld, the son and grandson of printers, was born in Boston in 1941. He is an independent scholar who lives in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from Yale, Columbia, and Boston Universities, is a Councillor at American Antiquarian Society, and is an Associate Fellow at Yale's Timothy Dwight College.

Bibliographic information

• Title: American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It
• Author: Richard N. Rosenfeld
• Contributor: Edmund S. Morgan
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Macmillan, 1998
• ISBN: 0312194374, 9780312194376
• Length: 1012 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)