Truth and Privilege


Book Description

This fascinating study analyzes the evolution of libel law in Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, in the crucible of conflicts over democratic institution-building, gender roles, slavery and other religious and social reform movements. It demonstrates how individuals shaped the law, as they navigated societal change and fought with their neighbors.







Taking Their Political Place


Book Description

Dooley explores the transformation of journalism, examining how journalists established occupational boundaries. She focuses on how many in society came to perceive an occupational group, inseparable from party politics early in the 19th century, as distant and independent of political parties by the end of the century. Today journalists are accepted as the citizenry's primary provider of political news and editorial opinion.