The Press Gang: Newspapers and Politics, 1865-1878
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The University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
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Mark Wahlgren Summers., & Mark Wahlgren Summers|AUTHOR. (2018). The Press Gang: Newspapers and Politics, 1865-1878 . The University of North Carolina Press.

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