Hugh Gaine: A Colonial Printer-Editor's Odyssey to Loyalism

by Alfred Lawrence Lorenz and Associate Professor Alfred Lawrence Lorenz Ph.D.

Hugh Gaine was a Colonial New York printer who in the second year of the American Revolution first allied his press to the American cause, then deserted to publish his newspaper for the British. This first book-length biography of Gaine contributes substantially to our knowl­edge of journalism in the Colonial period and provides fascinating insights into life in Revolutionary times.

Gaine was more than a turncoat Amer­ican, Lorenz...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809305887
• ISBN13: 9780809305889
• Release Date: December 1972
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"