Crying the News: A History of America`s Newsboys, Digirolamo Vincent

Crying the News: A History of Americas Newsboys offers an epic retelling of the American experience from the perspective of its most unshushable creation. It is the first book to place newsboys at the center of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural
symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. DiGirolamos sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these little merchants over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chronicling their exploits in every
region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them. While the book focuses mainly on boys in the trade, it also examines the experience of girls and grown-ups, the elderly and disabled, blacks and whites, immigrants and natives.