Misinformation Nation: Foreign News And The Politics Of Truth In Revolutionary America

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--

• | Author: Jordan E. Taylor
• | Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 11, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1421444496
• | ISBN-13: 9781421444499