History of American Journalism

A History of American Journalism by James Melvin Lee, former head of the New York University School of Journalism, supplies students of journalism with a reference work long needed. The book presents a vast mass of information in orderly and intelligible form, and its facts have evidently been sought for and verified from the most authentic sources. Its twenty chapters record the beginnings of the colonial press, tell the story of the partisan press of early American history, enumerates the most important papers in all the states and territories, and endevours to distribute as justly as possible the emphasis to be accorded the many and various aspects of so complicated a development. A storehouse of facts and as a book of reference the book is invaluable.” Excerpted from the Review by Carl H. Grabo of the University of Chicago, in the American Journal of Sociology