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William Duane (12 May 1760 – 24 November 1835) was an American journalist, publisher, author and activist of Irish descent who was active on four continents. After working for radical Whig newspapers in Ireland and in London, he managed two titles of his own in the Bengal Presidency.
Jun 27, 2021 · William Duane, the editor of Democratic-Republican The Aurora, obtained a copy of the controversial bill and printed it. Federalists quickly demanded that Duane come to the Senate,...
William Duane was the only eighteenth-century radical to have a press career spanning the nations of Ireland, England, India and America. He crossed the Atlantic and Indian Oceans many times and had three changes of nationality.
May 17, 2018 · The American journalist William Duane (1760-1835) was an effective advocate of Jeffersonian democracy. He and his son William John Duane, a prominent lawyer, were embroiled in the political controversies of the time. William Duane came from a family of Irish patriots.
William John Duane was born in 1780 in Clonmel, Ireland. In 1796, Duane's family emigrated to the United States, and he got a job as a compositor for Philadelphia's True Believer newspaper.
This is the first biography of the influential radical journalist William Duane to study his American career in light of his formative years in Ireland, England and India. Duane is most famous as the editor of The Aurora, the Philadelphia-based paper which vigorously supported Thomas Jefferson in his 1800 presidential election campaign. Based ...
The portrayal of Duane found in the recent historiography and in the first academic biography of Duane, Kim T. Phillips’ William Duane: A Radical Journalist in the Age of Jefferson, lets Duane’s version of self rest too easily, without interrogating how he constructed his identity within an American political context for an American reading audi...
