FORERUNNER
The reprehensible 18th Gov. William Cosby’s clumsy and deceitful attacks on printer John Peter Zenger ironically cemented freedom of the press in the American consciousness.
Richard Kluger's latest book, Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press, will be published in October in paperback. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Ashes to Ashes, a searing history of the cigarette industry, and was a two-time National Book Award finalist (for Simple Justice and The Paper). He lives near San Francisco.