John Peter Zenger and the Fundamental Freedom

by William Lowell Putnam

In 1733, John Paul Zenger began to print the New York Journal, the newspaper that was to change Zenger's life and the direction of journalism in colonial America. The material published in the Journal so incensed Sir William Cosby, the royal governor, that Zenger was arrested for seditious libel. Zenger's case was taken on by Andrew Hamilton, the foremost lawyer in the colonies, and after several months in prison the printer was found innocent. The...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786403705
• ISBN13: 9780786403707
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.3"