First To Fall

First To FallThe history of the fight for free press has never been more vital in our own time, when journalists are targeted as enemies of the people. In this brilliant and rigorously researched history, award winning journalist and author Ken Ellingwood animates the life and times of abolitionist newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy. First to Fall illuminates this flawed yet heroic figure who made the ultimate sacrifice while fighting for free press rights in a time

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and a rebel who courted controversy

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an inquisitive single woman who becomes involved in a murder investigation

the machinations in Beijing and throughout the country that began with Bo's fall could affect China's economic development and disrupt the world's political and economic order

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The first known mystery written by an African-American

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