Books
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The printer's trial | Gail Jarrow | In a hot, crowded courtroom in colonial New York, on an August day in 1735, a jury found printer John Peter Zenger innocent of the charge of seditious libel against the British royal governor. The ve… | OL16052650W |
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Indelible ink | Richard Kluger | In 1733, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching the New-York Weekly Journal, which assailed the British governor as corrupt and arrogant -- a direct challenge… | OL20040473W |