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Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press
By Kluger, Richard
- ISBN
- 9780393245462 9780393245479
- Publisher
- Norton
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Starred Review on June 15, 2016 | Social Sciences
We wouldn't remember John Peter Zenger (1697–1746) for his momentous contribution to freedom of the American press if not for Lewis Morris (1671–1746). A brilliant, self-serving, power-hungry landowner, Morris was driven to avenge his firing as New York chief justice by William Cosby, royal governor of New York. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Kluger (Ashes to Ashes) deftly details the years of repressive political and legal conditions leading to Zenger's 1735 ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
