Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America's First Mass Medium
Two notorious antebellum New York murder cases--a prostitute slashed in an elegant brothel and a tradesman bludgeoned by the brother of inventor Samuel Colt--set off journalistic scrambles over the meanings of truth, objectivity, and the duty of the press that reverberate to this day.
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