num_pages: 258
description: This work shows that Edward H. Butler was emblematic of the late 19th-century new journalists who built the modern press by wrenching civic discourse from its narrow partisan roots and carving out vital new cultural, social, economic and political roles for newspapers.
language: English
title: The Life and Times of Edward H. Butler, Founder of the Buffalo News (1850-1914): A Crusading Journalist Navigates the Gilded Age
titlecomplete: The Life and Times of Edward H. Butler, Founder of the Buffalo News (1850-1914): A Crusading Journalist Navigates the Gilded Age
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr