American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns : The Suppressed History of Our Nation’s Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It

Chronicles the birth and near-death of civil liberties in the 1790s through the writings of a leading newspaper of the period and the careers of two of its young editors, who were arrested due to their inflammatory articles against President John Adams. The bulk of the book is excerpts from newspaper articles, notices, diaries, and letters, with some explanatory text in the “voice” of one of the editors. Includes b&w illustrations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.