Showing The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York by Patricia Cline Cohen
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The Flash Press Including short tales of urban life, editorials on prostitution, and moralizing rants against homosexuality, this work presents selections that epitomize a distinct form of urban journalism. Providing an overview of this colorful reportage, its editors, and its audience, it examines nineteenth-century ideas of sexuality and freedom. Full description