Hugh Gaine was a Colonial New York printer who in the second year of the American Revolution first allied his press to the American cause, then deserted to publish his newspaper for the British. This first book-length biography of Gaine contributes substantially to our knowl edge of journalism in the Colonial period and provides fascinating insights into life in Revolutionary times. Gaine was more than a turncoat Amer ican, Lorenz shows. From his reading of the files of Gaine's newspaper, from un published material, and ...
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Hugh Gaine was a Colonial New York printer who in the second year of the American Revolution first allied his press to the American cause, then deserted to publish his newspaper for the British. This first book-length biography of Gaine contributes substantially to our knowl edge of journalism in the Colonial period and provides fascinating insights into life in Revolutionary times. Gaine was more than a turncoat Amer ican, Lorenz shows. From his reading of the files of Gaine's newspaper, from un published material, and from a wide va riety of printed sources, Lorenz has pieced together this study of economic and political conservatism, religious be lief, and social class feelings which made Gaine a prototypal Loyalist to the British cause, though a citizen, or at least a resi dent, of the United States, to the end of his days, in 1807.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. Crisp and unmarked, F/VG. Full cloth binding. xii, 192pp. Foreword by Howard Rusk Long. Jacket has some light wear. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.