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020    9781643137025|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)1201300951 
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100 1  Ellingwood, Ken,|eauthor. 
245 10 First to fall :|bElijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free 
       press in the age of slavery /|cKen Ellingwood. 
250    First Pegasus Books cloth edition. 
264  1 New York :|bPegasus Books,|c[2021] 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    xiii, 351 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-318) and 
       index. 
520    "The history of the fight for free press has never been 
       more vital in our own time, when journalists are targeted 
       as "enemies of the people." In this brilliant and 
       rigorously researched history, award-winning journalist 
       and author Ken Ellingwood animates the life and times of 
       abolitionist newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy.  First to 
       Fall illuminates this flawed yet heroic figure who made 
       the ultimate sacrifice while fighting for free press 
       rights in a time when the First Amendment offered little 
       protection for those who dared to critique America's 
       "peculiar institution." Culminating in Lovejoy's dramatic 
       clashes with the pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois--who 
       were destroying printing press after printing press--First
       to Fall will bring Lovejoy, his supporters and his enemies
       to life during the raucous 1830s at the edge of slave 
       country. It was a bloody period of innovation, conflict, 
       violent politics, and painful soul-searching over pivotal 
       issues of morality and justice."--Amazon.com. 
600 10 Lovejoy, Elijah P.|q(Elijah Parish),|d1802-1837. 
650  0 Abolitionists|zIllinois|vBiography. 
650  0 Riots|zIllinois|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Antislavery movements. 
650  0 Slavery|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Freedom of the press|zUnited States|xHistory. 
651  0 Alton (Ill.)|xHistory. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
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