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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Citing Newspapers -- Introduction: The Pertinent Details -- 1 Samuel Loudon and the Building of the Empire State in Print -- 2 William Gordon, Print Culture, and the Politics of History -- 3 John Ward Fenno’s Bookshop...