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Sleep podcast. We'll be reading from The Evening Post, A Century of Journalism by Alan Nevins.

The book looks at The Press in America in the early 1800s.

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Chapter 1, Hamilton and the Founding of the Evening Post

Of all the newspapers established as party organs in the time when federalists and Democrats

were struggling for control of the government of the infant republic, but one

important journal survives.

It is the oldest daily in the larger American cities which has kept its name intact.

The Aurora, the Sentinel, the American citizen,

Porcupines Gazette,

whose pages the generation of Washington and Adams,

Jefferson and Burr, scanned so carefully,

are mere historical shades. But the Evening Post, founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton,

and a group of intimate political lieutenants for the expression of Hamilton's views remains a living link between that day of national beginnings and our own.

The spring of 1801, when plans were laid for issuing the Evening the Evening Post, was the blackest season the Federalists of New York had yet known.

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