Froth & Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America's First Mass Medium

by Andie Tucher (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $49.79

  Two notorious antebellum New York murder cases - a prostitute slashed in an elegant brothel and a tradesman bludgeoned by the brother of inventor Samuel Colt - set off journalistic scrambles over the meanings of truth, objectivity, and the duty of the press. In Froth and Scum, Andie Tucher explores - and explodes - the notion that'objective' reporting will discover a single, definitive truth.