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The culmination of five years of research, curating, writing and editing, this is my book. After inventing the Power 150, passing it over to Advertising Age and enjoying the world of new media, I wanted to explore old media... really old media. What I learned was incredible and shed amazing new light on America's founding era for me.
Considering the combined impact of traditional and social media on 21st century politics, it is difficult to imagine a time when media were more important. However, 250 years ago, newspapers were the fundamental form of media and arguably more important than any other time in history. Just as social media is helping to ignite and organize the Arab Spring, printed newspapers fanned the flames of rebellion in colonial America, provided critical correspondence during the Revolutionary War, sustained loyalty to the cause and ultimately aided in the outcome.
Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News (Sourcebooks, November 2012) offers readers an unprecedented look at colonial newspapers, which detailed the biggest battles and milestones as well as several forgotten events of the American Revolution.
Through vivid eyewitness accounts, battlefield letters and breaking news compiled from hundreds of newspapers – printed on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean – the story of the American Revolution is unlike any version that has been told. It is raw and uncut, full of intense action, drama and suspense. From start to finish, these frontline newspapers deliver incomparable insight about America’s founding and combine to reveal one of the most real and comprehensive narratives of the Revolutionary Era, loaded with amazing characters, better-than-fiction plot twists and the perfect climax. This is history in its purest form.
Author/Editor Todd Andrlik is among the nation’s leading authorities on 18th century newspapers. He built one of the most significant private collections of American Revolution era newspapers, containing the earliest printed reports of practically every major event and battle, which he is making public for the first time ever with this book.
Coming together to help put the original newspapers accounts in context are 37 top historians -- professors, scholars, authors and park rangers -- who have contributed more than 60 fascinating essays. These essays chronicle the impact these papers made on America's War of Independence.
In addition to the 400-page, full-color book, Todd Andrlik and Sourcebooks are launching a sensational multimedia package complete with website, digital archive of 300+ Revolutionary newspapers, interactive app, video, audio and educational lesson plans. With Reporting the Revolutionary War, we are bringing the 18th century to the 21st.
