History of the "National Intelligencer

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the aristocrat of Washington, D.C., journalism was the National Intelligencer. It served important educational and policy-making functions in relation to the federal government from the time it was born to fight for the cause of Thomas Jefferson's liberalism until it died espousing a conservatism that had no party to support it.

Originally published 1971.

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