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Rumor Has a Hundred Tongues: Narrative in an Age of Disintermediation
The old gatekeepers of the media sphere-in particular newspapers, television news, and news magazines-have come under assault, both economically and intellectually. The Power and the Story: How the Crafted Presidential Narrative Has Determined Political Success from George Washington to George W. Bush was published in 2004, and the idea that the important gatekeepers of political discourse were the journalistic leaders in those media still appeared not only reasonable but self-evident. But in fact the changes that are so obvious today were already well begun, particularly with respect to social media.
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The birth of empire : DeWitt Clinton and the American experience, 1769-1828
DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828) was one of the nation's strongest political leaders in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, serving as mayor of New York City, governor of the state, and narrowly losing the Presidential race of 1812 to James Madison. Patrician in his sentiments, Clinton nevertheless invented new forms of party politics. His greatest achievement, the Erie Canal, hastened the economic expansion of the country, altered the political geography of the nation, set an example for activist government, and decisively secured New York City's position as America's first and foremost metropolis. This new book relates the full biography of one of the most important political figures in US history.
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Mayor Clinton
THE CITY CLINTON CAME back to lead in 1803 was a flourishing port whose population would grow during that decade from 60,000 to nearly 1oo,ooo. Al though in 1803 Philadelphia was still the nation’s largest city, by 1815, when Clinton left the mayoralty for good, New York would be firmly in the lead. One obvious difference between the mayoralty then and now was that the office was appointive, one of the thousands of posts, large and small, disposed of by the Council of Appointment in Albany. But other differences are even more striking. The city had a population in 1800 that was less than a hundredth the size of the present metropolis. The scope of city government was much smaller: police protection was minimal, fire protection was the responsibility of volunteers, there was no public education, and ‘social services’ were provided at a rudimentary level by the public almshouse and by private charity.
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Clintoians And Burrites
THE REPUBLICAN VICTORIES OF 1800 and 1801 had greatly weakened the power of the Federalists, and that weakness allowed existing rivalries within the Republican ranks to sharpen into public discord and even bloodshed. If the politics of New York a decade earlier could be described as being divided among the Schuylers, the Clintons, and the Livingstons, by 1801 Aaron Burr and his associates had created a new force. The founding of the Manhattan Company had given Burr a powerful tool to win influential people to his side, and his skillful conduct of the state campaign for Jefferson in 1800 had won him admirers and made clear his skill in the developing art of popular politics.
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Introduction
The success of DeWitt’s father and uncle had paved the way for this charmed as cent. His upbringing instilled in him a set of qualities that help account for both his triumphs as an architect of innovative government policies and his failures as a politician. Raised in comfort, educated at the best schools, welcome in the most exclusive homes in New York, the young politician had many advantages. Growing up amid the ferment of revolution and nation-building, he had a sense of fitness to command that was wedded to a seriousness of purpose, a cognizance of the high stakes involved in the nation’s early politics. But along with these good qualities he possessed a self importance, haughty bearing, and hostility to criticism that eventually alienated many of his closest allies. As his friend James Renwick put it, ‘There was hardly any distinguished individual of our state who has not at one time been opposed to Clinton, and at another united with him in pursuit of the same political object.
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