Acknowledgments ix
  Introduction: Communication and Community                      1

  PART 1: COMMUNITIES OF PRODUCTION
1. Teleology and News: The Religious Roots of American
  Journalism, 1630-1730                                           31
2. The Authority of Truth: Religion and the
  John Peter Zenger Case                                          65
3. Newspapers and American Nationhood, 1776-1826                  80
4. Tocqueville, Garrison, and the Perfection of Journalism        92
5. The Public Community: The Urbanization of Journalism
  in Chicago                                                      108
6. The Business Values of American Newspapers:
  The Nineteenth-Century Watershed                                133
7. The Paradox of Municipal Reform in the Late
  Nineteenth Century                                              152

  PART 2: COMMUNITIES OF RECEPTION
8. A Republican Literature: A Study of Magazine Readers and
  Reading in Late Eighteenth-Century New York                     175





9. Readership as Citizenship in Late Eighteenth-Century
   Philadelphia                                                   199
10. Working-Class Readers: Family, Community, and Reading in
   Late Nineteenth-Century America                                225
11. Reading the Newspaper: Strategies and Politics of Reader
   Response, Chicago, 1912-17                                     246
12. Readers Love to Argue about the News-But Not
   in Newspapers                                                  278
   Afterword: Newspapers, Readers, and Communities Today          285

   Index                                                          289