Crying the news : a history of America's Newsboys / Vincent DiGirolamo.

9780190933258 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

HD8039.N422 U637 2019

381.45071

'Crying the News' places newsboys at the centre of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. Vincent DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these 'little merchants' over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chronicling their exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them.

'Crying the News' places newsboys at the centre of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. Vincent DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these 'little merchants' over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chronicling their exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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