# The Sun and the Moon

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- Authors: [Matthew Goodman](https://www.bookquiver.com/matthew-goodman)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2010-06-01

## Description

On August 26, 1835, a fledgling newspaper called the Sun brought to New York the first accounts of remarkable lunar discoveries. A series of six articles reported the existence of life on the moon,including unicorns, beavers that walked on their hind legs, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats. In a matter of weeks it was the most broadly circulated newspaper story of the era, and the Sun , a working-class upstart, became the most widely read paper in the world. An exhilarating narrative history of a divided city on the cusp of greatness, and tale of a crew of writers, editors, and charlatans who stumbled on a new kind of journalism, The Sun and the Moon tells the surprisingly true story of the penny papers that made America a nation of newspaper readers.

## Editions

### The Sun and the Moon

- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6501-900-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2010-06-01
- Language: en_GB