Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America

Author/Contributor(s):	Garvey, T Gregory
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	04/15/2010
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In this study, T. Gregory Garvey illustrates how activists and reformers claimed the instruments of mass media to create a freestanding culture of reform that enabled voices disfranchised by church or state to speak as equals in public debates over the nation's values.