Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America

Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America
ISBN-10
1421444496
ISBN-13
9781421444499
Category
History
Pages
286
Language
English
Published
2022-10-11
Publisher
JHU Press
Author
Jordan E. Taylor

Description

"To understand the American Revolution and the early republic, the author argues that we must attend to the descriptive truths--statements about the nature of the world and its politics--that the revolutionaries believed. The author draws on a large set of US and Canadian newspapers to show how Americans used information, and misinformation, from foreign newspapers to frame their political realities"--

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