New book: "How a Nation Grieves: Press Accounts..."

[Thomas Thorne]

This sounds like a fascinating book. I intend to buy it.

I remember reading a book by Kenneth Stampp "And the War Came" which examined the secession crisis thru Northern newspaper editorials. I am guessing that the Civil War era represented the ultimate flowering in both numbers and influence of the small sized newspaper with individual proprietors. Republicans would not be caught dead reading Democratic rags and Democrats felt the same way about Republican journals. The "New York Herald" with its mass circulation-in 1861 an amazing 84,000-was quite atypical.

Given the stupendous decline in the number of newspapers and the advent of polling, I don't believe we will ever see a similar book about our time unless someone preserves blogs for posterity.

PS Can anyone identify the source of Kenneth Stampp's title "And the War Came"?
Tom