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Lincoln's Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels, and a President's Mission to Destroy the Press
Where others withered, editor John Hodgson refused to accept an unprecedented assault by the
Lincoln administration on the press. A Pennsylvania Democrat, Hodgson fought back. "Lincoln's
election will be the death-knell to the republic" wrote Hodgson, and he was sure that a Union victory
would spell the end of the nation he loved. If Hodgson lost, he knew his name and his fight would be
lost to the ages. When his press was destroyed, first by a mob, then by U.S. Marshals 'upon authority
of the President of the United States,' Hodgson fought back. Thus began a trial in which one
small-town publisher risked his life for the future of free speech. Based on 10 years of original
research, Lincoln's Wrath brings to life one of the most gripping, dramatic and unknown stories of U.S.
history.
