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Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism is a nonfiction history book by Eric Burns that examines the earliest decades of American journalism, from the colonial press through the Revolution and into the early Republic. Burns uses a lively narrative style to show that newspapers, pamphlets, and political commentary were not calm instruments of civic debate, but often fiercely partisan, sensational, and personal. Rather than treating media bias as a modern failure, the book argues that many of its familiar forms were already present at the nation’s birth. The result is both a history of the press and a history of the political culture that the press helped shape. By focusing on journalists, pamphleteers, and the public attacks they traded with major founding figures, the book explains how newspapers influenced public opinion, political rivalry, and the development of American identity.