Table of Contents -- PART I: THE RISE OF AN ENGLISH PRESS -- 1. Autolycus' Pack: The Ballad Journalism of the Sixteenth Century -- 2. War Journalism Three Hundred Years Ago -- 3. The Power of the English Press in the Eighteenth Century -- 4. Daniel Defoe BY JOHN DOS PASSOS -- PART II: A COLONIAL PRESS IN THE ENGLISH PATTERN -- 5. Forerunners of the Newspaper in America -- 6. Colonial Pamphleteers -- 7. Franklin as a Printer -- PART III: THE REVOLUTION AND NEW REPUBLIC: A NATIONALISTIC PRESS -- 8. The Newspaper Coverage of Lexington and Concord -- 9. Tom Paine's First Appearance in America -- 10. William Cobbett and Philadelphia Journalism, 1794-1800 -- PART IV: JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY AND A POPULAR PRESS -- 11. Francis P. Blair, Pen-Executive of Andrew Jackson -- 12. James Gordon Bennett's Scintillations -- 13. Horace Greeley -- PART V: POST CIVIL WAR: A PRESS IN TRANSITION -- 14. Samuel Bowles -- 15. Godkin of the Post -- 16. Kentucky Bourbon: Marse Henry Watterson -- 17. Henry W. Grady, Reporter -- 18. The Man Who Made the Star -- PART VI: MASS CIRCULATION: THE PRESS GIANTS -- 19. Yellow Journalism -- 20. The Portrait of an Editor: Joseph Pulitzer -- 21. Hearst: A Psychological Note -- 22. William Randolph Hearst: A Tentative Appraisal -- 23. Edward W. Scripps -- 24. The Legacy of Scripps -- 25. Mr. Munsey -- 26. The Man Behind the Times -- 27. The Colonel's Century: Time Looks at Robert R. McCormick -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.