Benjamin Franklin Bache and the Philadelphia Aurora

The first modern biography of Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Between 1793 and 1798, Bache was the nation's leading political journalist and a sharp critic of the Federalists. As editor of the "Aurora," the most important radical newspaper of the 1790s, he lived at the center of most of the political storms of that decade. A primary target of the Sedition Act, Bache was indicted for federal common law seditious libel before that act took effect. Tagg establishes the ideological and psychological framework of Bache's later radicalism by carefully examining Bache's childhood with his grandfather, his education in Geneva, and his adolescence in Philadelphia.Tagg, James is the author of 'Benjamin Franklin Bache and the Philadelphia Aurora' with ISBN 9780812282559 and ISBN 0812282558.