Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press by Richard Kluger

Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press

Richard Kluger

384 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1735, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching a small newspaper, the New-York Weekly Journal. The newspaper was assailed by the new British governor as corrupt and arrogant, and as being a direct challeng...

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