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...William Cobbett is a pompous English import who bloviated in his Porcupine's Gazette on behalf of Hamilton and his law-and-order Federalists. His rival in vitriol is James Thomson Callender, wanted for sedition in his native Scotland. He was Jefferson's hit man who, when slighted by the Sage of Monticello, spread informed innuendo about his arrangement with slave and lover Sally Hemings. Public reaction to the disclosure makes the Clinton-Lewinsky affair look like a casual game of spin the bottle...
Profiling William Cobbett and James Thomas Callender, who engaged in seditious journalism that targeted the Founding Fathers of the United States, Safire sought to show that scurrilous reporting is an ingrained American institution...
...result his entire view of rural England presents Arcadia in a new guise. One could never imagine, looking at his paintings of Dedham Vale and the River Stour, that the placid shires of the 1820s and '30s looked very different to the writer and reformer William Cobbett, that they were full of rick burners, machine breakers, hanging judges and posses of brutal yeomanry...
...brief, perceptive introduction, Middleton places Stone in the tradition of 18th century English pamphleteer William Cobbett. Like Cobbett, Stone combines a trenchant critique of existing conditions with a nostalgic vision of his country in which the nation was true to its ideals. Middleton writes, "Few people contrive to remain faithful to the vision proffered by the very forces which are busy betraying it," and Stone is most remarkable because his "devotion to the liberal vision and to America has never allowed him to pull his punches...
...collection that includes scarce chronicles from the body's earliest years. Among the items: all but two issues of Congressional Debates (1789-91), compiled by Thomas Lloyd, the first legislative reporter, and the original issue of View from the Congress Gallery (1795), by Peter Porcupine (Reporter William Cobbett). "It is never lonely at my house late at night after the kids have gone to bed," says MacNeil. "I simply throw open a copy of the Congressional Globe and say hello to Dan Webster or Henry Clay...