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Through a blend of social and media history, the author explores America's transition from a production-oriented society to a culture of consumption. Because of Dana's strong aversion to the consumerism that accompanied industrial capitalism, the Sun became both the conscience and the advocate for New York's working class. In the words of Joseph Pulitzer, Dana transformed the Sun into "the most piquant, entertaining, and without exception, the best newspaper in the world."
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In a recent poll of leading historians, Charles A. Dana was named among the “Twenty-Five Most Influential Civil War Figures You’ve Probably Never Heard Of.” If you have heard of Dana, it was probably from his classic Recollections of the Civil War (1898), which was ghostwritten by muckraker Ida Tarbell and riddled with errors cited by unsuspecting historians ever since. Lincoln’s Informer at long last sets the record straight, giving Charles A. Dana his due in a story that rivals the best historical fiction. Dana didn’t just record history, Carl J. Guarneri notes: he made it. Starting out as managing editor of Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, he led the newspaper’s charge aga...
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This is the seventh book in the regular series of Mr. Gibson's published drawings, consisting of:DRAWINGS BY C. D. GIBSONNo. 1PICTURES OF PEOPLENo. 2SKETCHES AND CARTOONSNo. 3THE EDUCATION OF MR. PIPPNo. 4AMERICANSNo. 5A WIDOW AND HER FRIENDSNo. 6THE SOCIAL LADDERNo. 7Each book contains eighty-four of Mr. Gibson's best cartoons, and all are uniform in size, shape and binding.STUDIES IN EXPRESSION.An Imitation of the lady of the house.
The young, independent, and beautiful Gibson Girl came to define the spirit of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Carefully selected from vintage editions, this collection features more than 100 of Gibson's finest illustrations.
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