The battle of the press

A concise daughter’s biography of a radical publisher traces his sustained campaign for freedom of the press and free public discussion, documenting repeated prosecutions, trials, and long imprisonments imposed by church and state. It includes his eyewitness narrative of a mass protest met by military violence, an account of the legal measures used to suppress dissent, and descriptions of the periodical and public venues through which he argued for reform. The work intersperses letters, contemporary commentary, and memories of collaborators, and concludes with appendices reproducing trial records, letters, and a list of imprisonments to substantiate the account.