The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York

Goodman, Matthew

ISBN 10: 0465002579 / ISBN 13: 9780465002573

Edité par Basic Books, 2008

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First hardcover edition, with dust jacket, published by Basic Books, 2008. How the New York City newspaper, 'The Sun' became a sensation in 1835. 350 pages, with Index, Bibliography, Notes, 6" x 9". Dust jacket is not price clipped. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Not a remainder, not a library discard copy. Edges of the text block are clean, and the binding is tight and square.

N° de réf. du vendeur 26-08846

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York
• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0465002579
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780465002573
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Très bon
• État de la jaquette: Très bon
• Dimensions: 16,26 L x 23,55 H x 2,97 P (centimètres) 16,26 centimètres de largeur par 23,55 centimètres de hauteur par 2,97 centimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 666,781 grammes
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • New York
  • American History
  • History

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Synopsis

The Sun and the Moon tells the delightful, entertaining, and surprisingly true story of how in the summer of 1835 a series of articles in the Sun , the first of the city's “penny papers,” convinced the citizens of New York that the moon was inhabited.

Six articles, purporting to reveal the lunar discoveries made by a world-famous British astronomer, described the life found on the moon—including unicorns, beavers that walked upright, and, strangest of all, four-foot-tall flying man-bats. The series quickly became the most widely circulated newspaper story of the era. And the Sun , a brash working-class upstart less than two years old, had become the most widely read newspaper in the world.

Told in richly novelistic detail, The Sun and the Moon brings the raucous world of 1830s New York City vividly to life—the noise, the excitement, the sense that almost anything was possible. The book overflows with larger-than-life characters, including Richard Adams Locke, author of the moon series (who never intended it to be a hoax at all); a fledgling showman named P.T. Barnum, who had just brought his own hoax to New York; and the young writer Edgar Allan Poe, who was convinced that the moon series was a plagiarism of his own work.

An exhilarating narrative history of a city on the cusp of greatness and a nation newly united by affordable newspapers, The Sun and the Moon may just be the strangest true story you've ever read.

À propos de l'auteur

Matthew Goodman’s nonfiction writing has appeared in The Forward , The American Scholar , Harvard Review , Brill’s Content , and The Utne Reader . He is the author of Jewish Food: The World at Table . He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children.