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The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York - Softcover
On August 26, 1835, a fledgling newspaper called the Sun brought to New York the first accounts of remarkable lunar discoveries. A series of six articles reported the existence of life on the moon - including unicorns, beavers that walked on their hind legs, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats. In a matter of weeks it was the most broadly circulated newspaper story of the era, and the Sun, a working-class upstart, became the most widely read paper in the world. An exhilarating narrative history of a divided city on the cusp of greatness, and tale of a crew of writers, editors, and charlatans who stumbled on a new kind of journalism, The Sun and the Moon tells the surprisingly true story of the penny papers that made America a nation of newspaper readers.
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'In The Sun and the Moon, Matthew Goodman has produced an immensley enjoyable account of one of the greatest (unintended) journalistic hoaxes of all timer. More importantly, this book provides a clear demonstration of the potentially dangerous influence of the media on the public's imagination.'
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`Goodman strips away layers of deception by journalist Richard Adams Locke to fully reveal what was hailed as the era's "most stupendous scientific imposition upon the public.'
--The New Scientist
--The New Scientist
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- PublisherReadHowYouWant
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1458760049
- ISBN 13 9781458760043
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages600
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