VERY RARE 1860 PRE-CIVIL WAR SOUTH LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
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VERY RARE 1860 PRE-CIVIL WAR SOUTH LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY Description: George Dennison Prentice was the editor of the Louisville Journal, which he built into a major newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky. He attracted readers by satire as well as exaggerated reporting and support of the Know-Nothing Party in the 1850s. His writing was said to contribute to rabid anti-Catholic and anti-foreigner sentiment, and a riot in 1855. During the Civil War, he created and wrote about a fictional guerrilla "Sue Mundy", whose activities he used to taunt the Union military commander of the state.ON AUCTION is a rare 1860 first edition, published right before the Civil War, Prenticeana, Or, Wit and Humor in Paragraphs. By the Editor of the Louisville Journal. Published in New York by Derby & Jackson. Bound in tan embossed cloth, 306 pages. Great condition for a book of this period. 8x5 inches. With a bookplate from the Bowdoin College Library, in Maine.Much of these writings are incendiary, the kind of thing that could get one arrested today. He notes that another editor had recently called General Harrison a "rather deserving man." Prentice quips, "The general and the editor are both deserving--the one of the Presidency, the other of the Penitentiary." Or try this out, "We have received a North Carolina paper, purporting to be edited by James White
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