Original Spin: Downing Street and the Press in Victorian Britain

by PaulBrighton (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2014

  $83.75

  Is political spin really a new phenomenon or have politicians been manipulating the press for as long as newspapers have existed? This book shows that spin is not something dreamed up by modern, media-savvy politicians. In fact, it was one of the best-kept political secrets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.