Manton Marble of the New York World

Washington DC: The Catholic University of America, 1957. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. vii, [1], 135, [1] pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. This is a dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of arts and Sciences of The Catholic University of America in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Manton Marble (1834–1917) was a New York journalist. He was the proprietor and editor of the New York World from 1860 to 1876. The New York World was formed in 1860. Marble became its proprietor and editor in 1862. He turned it into a free-trade Democratic Journal. Marble's World building was not attacked during the New York City Draft Riots of 1863, unlike the Republican newspapers The Tribune and The Times. In 1864, the World was charged with fraud after it published communications from President Lincoln that turned out to be forged. Lincoln arrested Marble and placed the World under military guard. Marble, and the World, was allowed to resume publication three days later. In 1872, the World vigorously opposed Horace Greeley's presidential campaign. Marble retired his editorial position in 1876. In 1885, he went to Europe as a delegate to the Bi-Metallic Congress. He became president of the Manhattan Club in 1888. The New York World was published in New York City from 1860 until 1931. The paper played a major role in the history of American newspapers. It was a leading national voice of the Democratic Party. From 1883 to 1911 under publisher Joseph Pulitzer, it was a pioneer in yellow journalism, capturing readers' attention with sensation, sports, sex and scandal and pushing its daily circulation to the one-million mark. The present study is an attempt to survey the political attitudes of Manton Marble with emphasis on those issues toward which he directed his greatest interest, namely the issues of conflicting interpretations of the United States constitution, of the legal and political problems of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and of the social and economic forces in post-Civil War America. Materials for this study were drawn almost entirely from primary sources--from the collections of ninety-five volumes of Marble papers in the Library of Congress and from the files of The World newspaper. Condition: Good.

Keywords: Journalism, The New York World, Newspaper, Editor, Forgery, Abraham Lincoln, Constitution, Democratic Party, Manton Marble, Samuel Tilden, Tweed Ring

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