- 1Dedication — Preface
- 2Chapter One — Hamilton and the Founding of the “Evening Post”
- 3Chapter Two — The Evening Post as Leader of the Federalist Press
- 4Chapter Three — The City and the “Evening Post’s” Place in It
- 5Chapter Four — Literature and Drama in the Early “Evening Post”
- 6Chapter Five — Bryant Becomes Editor of the “Evening Post”
- 7Chapter Six — William Leggett Acting Editor; Depression, Rivalry, a…
- 8Chapter Seven — The Rise of the Slavery Question; the Mexican War
- 9Chapter Eight — New York Becomes a Metropolis; Central Park
- 10Chapter Nine — Literary Aspects of Bryant’s Newspaper, 1830–1855
- 11Chapter Ten — John Bigelow as an Editor of the “Evening Post”
- 12Chapter Eleven — Heated Politics Before the Civil War
- 13Chapter Twelve — The New York Press and Southern Secession
- 14Chapter Thirteen — The Critical Days of the Civil War
- 15Chapter Fourteen — Reconstruction and Impeachment
- 16Chapter Fifteen — Bryant at the Height of His Fame as Editor
- 17Chapter Sixteen — Apartment Houses Rise and Tweed Falls
- 18Chapter Seventeen — Independence in Politics: The Elections of ’72…
- 19Chapter Eighteen — Two Rebel Literary Editors
- 20Chapter Nineteen — Warfare Within the Office: Parke Godwin’s Editor…
- 21Chapter Twenty — The Villard Purchase: Carl Schurz Editor-in-Chief
- 22Chapter Twenty-One — Godkin, the Mugwump Movement, and Grover Cleve…
- 23Chapter Twenty-Two — Godkin’s War Without Quarter Upon Tammany
- 24Chapter Twenty-Three — Free Silver, the Spanish War, and Imperialism
- 25Chapter Twenty-Four — Characteristics of a Fighting Editor: E. L. G…
- 26Chapter Twenty-Five — News, Literature, Music, and Drama, 1880–1900
- 27Chapter Twenty-Six — Horace White, Rollo Ogden, and the “Evening Po…
The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism
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