Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents

by Donald A. Ritchie

Book Overview

'Press Gallery' examines the lives of Greeley, Horace White, Ben Perley Poore, Emily Briggs, Jane Grey Swisshelm, James G. Blaine, and others who were positioned in the hub of government when the Civil War, the purchase of Alaska, the Credit Mobilier scandal, and the Johnson impeachment hearings were making front-page news.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674703758
• ISBN13: 9780674703759
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"