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Obscene, libidinous, loathsome, lascivious. Those were just some of the ways critics described the nineteenth-century weeklies that covered and publicized New York City’s extensive sexual underworld. Publications like the Flash and the Whip—distinguished by a captivating brew of lowbrow humor and titillating gossip about prostitutes, theater denizens, and sporting events—were not the sort generally bound in leather for future reference, and despite their popularity with an enthusiastic readership, they quickly receded into almost complete obscurity. Recently, though, two sizable collections of these papers have resurfaced, and in The Flash Press three renowned scholars provide a landmark study of their significance as well as a wide selection of their ribald articles and illustrations.
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Including short tales of urban life, editorials on prostitution, and moralizing rants against homosexuality, these selections epitomize a distinct form of urban journalism. Here, in addition to providing a thorough overview of this colorful reportage, its editors, and its audience, the authors examine nineteenth-century ideas of sexuality and freedom that mixed Tom Paine’s republicanism with elements of the Marquis de Sade’s sexual ideology. They also trace the evolution of censorship and obscenity law, showing how a string of legal battles ultimately led to the demise of the flash papers: editors were hauled into court, sentenced to jail for criminal obscenity and libel, and eventually pushed out of business. But not before they forever changed the debate over public sexuality and freedom of expression in America’s most important city. (20080505)
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[cue the voice from "The Shadow"] "Who knows what lurks in dusty archives? Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz know!" [evil laugh]
This is a highly useful book which is academic but not dry. It can be read by social historians, literary history people, and Boston or New York local history buffs with good benefit, but the general reader will get a great glimpse of a little-documented piece of Americana. I read it because I am trying to trace the elusive William Joseph Snelling, one of the biggies in the flash press whom the authors document with wonderful bird-dog sleuthing. Snelling would have been proud.
The authors have worked with a set of previously undocumented "gentlemen's sporting press" newspapers from the 1840s. Copies of them have miraculously survived in collections but have not been really studied before these authors met and collaborated. Some of the extant originals came from evidence files from the police! Here is America's underbelly, including some amazing images that document antebellum sleaze. Reminds me of the early days of _Playboy Magazine_ when undergrads quoted the Playboy Advisor as a way to score some status with the opposite sex and with other undergrads in late night bull sessions. When you read, try to pretend that you don't live in a world of sex everywhere--imagine how exciting it would be to come across a publication that told you about whorehouses, local police and local madames, nasty diseases, and more.
My compliments to the authors!
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In the 1840s, New Yorkers didn't have _Hustler_ or _Screw_ magazine, but they didn't go without their titillation in print. They could get to the newsstand and buy _The Flash_, _The Rake_, _The Whip_, or _The Libertine_, and get a dash of bold, provocative, and spicy prose, with saucy pictures. The papers are long gone, and would have been forgotten ephemera had not a treasure trove of them shown up twenty years ago. Three professors of history, Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, have examined the lot and, with admirable academic objectivity and distance, have described the papers and given context for them in _The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York_ (University of Chicago Press). That doesn't keep the book from being fun, for all it's footnotes and references. Not only do the authors give a history of the papers, a summary of their contents, a description of the sexual politics of the time, and a report of the trials to which their editors, writers, and publishers were put, but also almost half of the book's text is reprints in full of stories from the press. The flash press must have been shocking entertainment in its time, and _The Flash Press_ proves to be entertaining history in our own.
The papers may have made a great noise in their short time of existence (1841 - 1843) but they were then forgotten a cache of them was found. Newsboys would hawk the papers for perhaps six cents apiece, and readers could pay twenty-five cents to insert gossip. The papers also printed threats of revealing who owned brothels or other embarrassing material, making money by blackmail. The flash press was often literally pornography, if you remember that etymologically "pornography" means "harlot writing". Much of the print in the flash press had to do with brothels, reporting upon particular houses or the charms of certain ladies, or on celebrations and balls held by the prostitutes. Some of the income of the press came from brothel-keepers who paid bribes to have their businesses puffed. But the remarks on "the sinful trade of prostitution" are in keeping with what the authors say is the great paradox of the flash press: "it indulged in verbal pornographic image-making while simultaneously employing the language and rhetoric of moral reformers." By taking a literal stance against prostitution, the papers were then able to describe its manifestations in detail, including addresses of houses to which readers could go if they wished to be outraged in person.
The papers were a financial success, but their success made them a visible target for libel suits from those who were treated badly in their pages or from law enforcement's efforts to improve the citizens' morals. The owners of _The Flash_ were indicted for publishing an obscene paper in 1842, and other suits against the papers charged that they inspired lust and intended "to debauch, injure, debase, and corrupt" the youth of the city. It was possibly the first time the courts were used as censors of sexual matter. The authors show that like most states, New York had no anti-obscenity law at the time; this would not happen until the federal Comstock Law of 1873, which banned circulation of printed matter containing such obscenities as information about contraception. The English common law tradition, imported to the U.S., served as a basis for the prosecutions, which were generally successful and shut the papers down after their short but lucrative runs. The First Amendment was held more as a protection for states against the federal government, not for citizens against governmental intrusion, and was not a factor in obscenity proceedings until the tradition of dissent that emerged after the Civil War. During the twentieth century, obscenity decisions would overturn many of the common law assumptions that had ended the flash press, which was succeeded by milder "police gazettes" that had similar themes. The flash press thus is important both for having played a substantial role in the history of government prosecution of naughtiness and for giving a picture of the sporting, manly urban life of the mid-nineteenth century. Both roles are well documented in this appealing volume of historical commentary and excerpts and engravings from the papers themselves.
2008-06-13
By Ann M. Altman (Connecticut)
I ordered this book after reading an interesting review in the Sunday New York Times. I found it heavy going and gradually became bored. The authors don't have the necessary narrative spark to bring what should be a fascinating topic alive and there is a surfeit of tedious and repetitive information that seems to take the reader round in circles.
2008-05-31
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Every once in awhile, when I was a kid back in the late 50s and early 60s, I'd run across a "men's magazine" carelessly left lying around the house by my dad. Compared to what's offered by today's sex industry, the stuff was pretty tame: stories of conquest that were no more heated than a typical true romance novel, ribald jokes and cartoons, the occasional flash of a breast or an unshod, nyloned foot.
What I didn't know until I read The Flash Press is that dad's men's magazines were tame by standards a century earlier, too. As chronicled by Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy Gilfoyle, and Helen Horowitz, the two decades preceding the Civil War gave rise to a lively men's magazine market in New York City that offered bawdy tales, suggestive drawings, a celebration of libertinism, libelous gossip, and actual addresses of fallen ladies who (as the articles slyly intimated) had no recourse left them but to turn their misfortune into a source of income, and who would naturally welcome gentlemen callers. Oh my.
Predictably, there was a market for this sort of thing. (I can imagine respectable 1840s New York men surreptitiously buying and reading the papers, just like respectable men of my father's generation did.) There was such a demand, in fact, that eventually there were four of these rags to choose from. Each was printed on poor quality paper with smudgy printing and sold for under 10 cents an issue. But the production quality wasn't really what buyers were interested in. What they were after was the hot contents of came to be known as the "flash press."
The trendsetter was "The Flash," founded in 1841 by a ne'er-do-well named William Snelling, a West Point dropout, dipsomaniac, and failed poet who would later relocate to Boston and become the editor of the very respectable "Boston Herald." Soon several competitors were on the market--"The Whip," "The Rake," and "The Libertine"--and despite occasional lawsuits and legal hassles, they egged one another on in achieving new heights of raceyness. Everything went okay for a couple of years. But then New York district attorney James Whiting decided to pull the plug on the flash press, and that early chapter in the history of men's magazines came to an end.
Reading the selections from these papers excerpted in The Flash Press can be a surreal experience. The language is in the stilted style of the early 19th century--sometimes, as a matter of fact, the strange combination of overdone punctuation, stiff rhetoric, and risque subject matter reminds one of the earlier Fannie Hill. Cohen, Gilfoye, and Horowitz's analysis of the material--its social and cultural context, broader questions about erotica in general, and the history of the sometimes humorous in-fighting between the various editors of the flash press publications--makes this an entertaining and fascinating read.
Highly recommended.
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* "The Rake," 3 September 1842
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[cue the voice from "The Shadow"] "Who knows what lurks in dusty archives? Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz know!" [evil laugh]
This is a highly useful book which is academic but not dry. It can be read by social historians, literary history people, and Boston or New York local history buffs with good benefit, but the general reader will get a great glimpse of a little-documented piece of Americana. I read it because I am trying to trace the elusive William Joseph Snelling, one of the biggies in the flash press whom the authors document with wonderful bird-dog sleuthing. Snelling would have been proud.
The authors have worked with a set of previously undocumented "gentlemen's sporting press" newspapers from the 1840s. Copies of them have miraculously survived in collections but have not been really studied before these authors met and collaborated. Some of the extant originals came from evidence files from the police! Here is America's underbelly, including some amazing images that document antebellum sleaze. Reminds me of the early days of _Playboy Magazine_ when undergrads quoted the Playboy Advisor as a way to score some status with the opposite sex and with other undergrads in late night bull sessions. When you read, try to pretend that you don't live in a world of sex everywhere--imagine how exciting it would be to come across a publication that told you about whorehouses, local police and local madames, nasty diseases, and more.
My compliments to the authors!
By R. Hardy (Columbus, Mississippi USA)
In the 1840s, New Yorkers didn't have _Hustler_ or _Screw_ magazine, but they didn't go without their titillation in print. They could get to the newsstand and buy _The Flash_, _The Rake_, _The Whip_, or _The Libertine_, and get a dash of bold, provocative, and spicy prose, with saucy pictures. The papers are long gone, and would have been forgotten ephemera had not a treasure trove of them shown up twenty years ago. Three professors of history, Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, have examined the lot and, with admirable academic objectivity and distance, have described the papers and given context for them in _The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York_ (University of Chicago Press). That doesn't keep the book from being fun, for all it's footnotes and references. Not only do the authors give a history of the papers, a summary of their contents, a description of the sexual politics of the time, and a report of the trials to which their editors, writers, and publishers were put, but also almost half of the book's text is reprints in full of stories from the press. The flash press must have been shocking entertainment in its time, and _The Flash Press_ proves to be entertaining history in our own.
The papers may have made a great noise in their short time of existence (1841 - 1843) but they were then forgotten a cache of them was found. Newsboys would hawk the papers for perhaps six cents apiece, and readers could pay twenty-five cents to insert gossip. The papers also printed threats of revealing who owned brothels or other embarrassing material, making money by blackmail. The flash press was often literally pornography, if you remember that etymologically "pornography" means "harlot writing". Much of the print in the flash press had to do with brothels, reporting upon particular houses or the charms of certain ladies, or on celebrations and balls held by the prostitutes. Some of the income of the press came from brothel-keepers who paid bribes to have their businesses puffed. But the remarks on "the sinful trade of prostitution" are in keeping with what the authors say is the great paradox of the flash press: "it indulged in verbal pornographic image-making while simultaneously employing the language and rhetoric of moral reformers." By taking a literal stance against prostitution, the papers were then able to describe its manifestations in detail, including addresses of houses to which readers could go if they wished to be outraged in person.
The papers were a financial success, but their success made them a visible target for libel suits from those who were treated badly in their pages or from law enforcement's efforts to improve the citizens' morals. The owners of _The Flash_ were indicted for publishing an obscene paper in 1842, and other suits against the papers charged that they inspired lust and intended "to debauch, injure, debase, and corrupt" the youth of the city. It was possibly the first time the courts were used as censors of sexual matter. The authors show that like most states, New York had no anti-obscenity law at the time; this would not happen until the federal Comstock Law of 1873, which banned circulation of printed matter containing such obscenities as information about contraception. The English common law tradition, imported to the U.S., served as a basis for the prosecutions, which were generally successful and shut the papers down after their short but lucrative runs. The First Amendment was held more as a protection for states against the federal government, not for citizens against governmental intrusion, and was not a factor in obscenity proceedings until the tradition of dissent that emerged after the Civil War. During the twentieth century, obscenity decisions would overturn many of the common law assumptions that had ended the flash press, which was succeeded by milder "police gazettes" that had similar themes. The flash press thus is important both for having played a substantial role in the history of government prosecution of naughtiness and for giving a picture of the sporting, manly urban life of the mid-nineteenth century. Both roles are well documented in this appealing volume of historical commentary and excerpts and engravings from the papers themselves.
By Ann M. Altman (Connecticut)
I ordered this book after reading an interesting review in the Sunday New York Times. I found it heavy going and gradually became bored. The authors don't have the necessary narrative spark to bring what should be a fascinating topic alive and there is a surfeit of tedious and repetitive information that seems to take the reader round in circles.
By Kerry Walters (Lewisburg, PA USA)
Every once in awhile, when I was a kid back in the late 50s and early 60s, I'd run across a "men's magazine" carelessly left lying around the house by my dad. Compared to what's offered by today's sex industry, the stuff was pretty tame: stories of conquest that were no more heated than a typical true romance novel, ribald jokes and cartoons, the occasional flash of a breast or an unshod, nyloned foot.
What I didn't know until I read The Flash Press is that dad's men's magazines were tame by standards a century earlier, too. As chronicled by Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy Gilfoyle, and Helen Horowitz, the two decades preceding the Civil War gave rise to a lively men's magazine market in New York City that offered bawdy tales, suggestive drawings, a celebration of libertinism, libelous gossip, and actual addresses of fallen ladies who (as the articles slyly intimated) had no recourse left them but to turn their misfortune into a source of income, and who would naturally welcome gentlemen callers. Oh my.
Predictably, there was a market for this sort of thing. (I can imagine respectable 1840s New York men surreptitiously buying and reading the papers, just like respectable men of my father's generation did.) There was such a demand, in fact, that eventually there were four of these rags to choose from. Each was printed on poor quality paper with smudgy printing and sold for under 10 cents an issue. But the production quality wasn't really what buyers were interested in. What they were after was the hot contents of came to be known as the "flash press."
The trendsetter was "The Flash," founded in 1841 by a ne'er-do-well named William Snelling, a West Point dropout, dipsomaniac, and failed poet who would later relocate to Boston and become the editor of the very respectable "Boston Herald." Soon several competitors were on the market--"The Whip," "The Rake," and "The Libertine"--and despite occasional lawsuits and legal hassles, they egged one another on in achieving new heights of raceyness. Everything went okay for a couple of years. But then New York district attorney James Whiting decided to pull the plug on the flash press, and that early chapter in the history of men's magazines came to an end.
Reading the selections from these papers excerpted in The Flash Press can be a surreal experience. The language is in the stilted style of the early 19th century--sometimes, as a matter of fact, the strange combination of overdone punctuation, stiff rhetoric, and risque subject matter reminds one of the earlier Fannie Hill. Cohen, Gilfoye, and Horowitz's analysis of the material--its social and cultural context, broader questions about erotica in general, and the history of the sometimes humorous in-fighting between the various editors of the flash press publications--makes this an entertaining and fascinating read.
Highly recommended.
________
* "The Rake," 3 September 1842
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2002-07-30
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No one could possibly take The New Yorker, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Esquire,The American Scholar, the Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Time, Gourmet, Harper's and Vanity Fair and read all the stories in them every month for a year. But what if the greatest experts, The American Society of Magazine Editors read 1,586 stories and picked just the best 17 of them for you to read. Even if you didn't think you'd like the subject, you will love reading each and every one of these. I'm using it for a seminar I'm giving -- one article and its author to discuss each week for 14 weeks. It's Terrific!!!
2001-12-18
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It's a long book, so I thought it would last. No such luck. The writing is simply amazing, across the board. Buy it, enjoy it.
2001-12-16
By Baman Motivala (Stockholm)
For anyone who enjoys feature writing and investigative journalism this is an excellent read. I have made it through 9 of the 17 stories and have thoroughly enjoyed 8 of them. The topics are broad (John McCain, seal hunting in Greenland, a fat wine critic, campaign finance reform and many more.) The writing is so good that even topics that usually bore me (wine for one) became interesting.
2001-12-01
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No matter who you are, what your interests or where your political affiliations lie, if you enjoy reading good writing, you will enjoy this book. It represents some of the tightest, best researched and most insightful writing of a year's worth of magazine articles. The magazines in which the articles were originally published range from The Atlantic Monthly to Zoetrope: All-Story (did they include the ends of the alphabet for such a sentence as this?). The subjects, writing styles and tones of the stories smatter widely, but have in common one thing: they are stories worth your while. You could be forced to walk, sit and suffer with John McCain through his torturous 5-year imprisonment in a North Vietnamese p.o.w. camp, as well as with the cast of characters behind one week of McCain's presidential campaign tour. You could bask in the glory of Bob Parker, a burly, middle-aged Maryland guy whose freakishly acute sense of smell, coupled with his rigid integrity, led to his publication of The Wine Advocate and the author's well-founded claim that Parker may be "single-handedly changing the history of wine." The book is replete with the end product of authors whose diligence, sensitivity and dexterity with the English language have culminated in some rock-solid reading.
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The mullet-cut is a style in which the hair is short at the front coupled with a long mane at the back. Popular in the 1980s, entering the zeitgeist and becoming the hairstyle to have, the mullet is now in decline. The authors examine all areas of the phenomenon, from mullets in pop to advertising.
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2003-06-16
By Author Brian Wallace (Mind Transmission, Inc.) (Texas)
The Mullet is the crowning accomplishment of white trash icons everywhere. They wear their coifs with feigned ignorance and blissful indifference to the profound impact they make. 2002-02-18
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2001-07-14
By K. Watson (Australia)
Those people requiring a weird gift for a birthday, trailer park bridal party, etc, could do worse than giving this book a go. It's full of great pictures of fine heads, stories, and special features that give people a taste of the mullet lifestyle. 2001-06-15
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2001-04-05
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Including short tales of urban life, editorials on prostitution, and moralizing rants against homosexuality, these selections epitomize a distinct form of urban journalism. Here, in addition to providing a thorough overview of this colorful reportage, its editors, and its audience, the authors examine nineteenth-century ideas of sexuality and freedom that mixed Tom Paine’s republicanism with elements of the Marquis de Sade’s sexual ideology. They also trace the evolution of censorship and obscenity law, showing how a string of legal battles ultimately led to the demise of the flash papers: editors were hauled into court, sentenced to jail for criminal obscenity and libel, and eventually pushed out of business. But not before they forever changed the debate over public sexuality and freedom of expression in America’s most important city. (20080509)
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2009-06-27
By Florantha (Maplewood MN)
[cue the voice from "The Shadow"] "Who knows what lurks in dusty archives? Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz know!" [evil laugh]
This is a highly useful book which is academic but not dry. It can be read by social historians, literary history people, and Boston or New York local history buffs with good benefit, but the general reader will get a great glimpse of a little-documented piece of Americana. I read it because I am trying to trace the elusive William Joseph Snelling, one of the biggies in the flash press whom the authors document with wonderful bird-dog sleuthing. Snelling would have been proud.
The authors have worked with a set of previously undocumented "gentlemen's sporting press" newspapers from the 1840s. Copies of them have miraculously survived in collections but have not been really studied before these authors met and collaborated. Some of the extant originals came from evidence files from the police! Here is America's underbelly, including some amazing images that document antebellum sleaze. Reminds me of the early days of _Playboy Magazine_ when undergrads quoted the Playboy Advisor as a way to score some status with the opposite sex and with other undergrads in late night bull sessions. When you read, try to pretend that you don't live in a world of sex everywhere--imagine how exciting it would be to come across a publication that told you about whorehouses, local police and local madames, nasty diseases, and more.
My compliments to the authors!
2008-07-22
By R. Hardy (Columbus, Mississippi USA)
In the 1840s, New Yorkers didn't have _Hustler_ or _Screw_ magazine, but they didn't go without their titillation in print. They could get to the newsstand and buy _The Flash_, _The Rake_, _The Whip_, or _The Libertine_, and get a dash of bold, provocative, and spicy prose, with saucy pictures. The papers are long gone, and would have been forgotten ephemera had not a treasure trove of them shown up twenty years ago. Three professors of history, Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, have examined the lot and, with admirable academic objectivity and distance, have described the papers and given context for them in _The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York_ (University of Chicago Press). That doesn't keep the book from being fun, for all it's footnotes and references. Not only do the authors give a history of the papers, a summary of their contents, a description of the sexual politics of the time, and a report of the trials to which their editors, writers, and publishers were put, but also almost half of the book's text is reprints in full of stories from the press. The flash press must have been shocking entertainment in its time, and _The Flash Press_ proves to be entertaining history in our own.
The papers may have made a great noise in their short time of existence (1841 - 1843) but they were then forgotten a cache of them was found. Newsboys would hawk the papers for perhaps six cents apiece, and readers could pay twenty-five cents to insert gossip. The papers also printed threats of revealing who owned brothels or other embarrassing material, making money by blackmail. The flash press was often literally pornography, if you remember that etymologically "pornography" means "harlot writing". Much of the print in the flash press had to do with brothels, reporting upon particular houses or the charms of certain ladies, or on celebrations and balls held by the prostitutes. Some of the income of the press came from brothel-keepers who paid bribes to have their businesses puffed. But the remarks on "the sinful trade of prostitution" are in keeping with what the authors say is the great paradox of the flash press: "it indulged in verbal pornographic image-making while simultaneously employing the language and rhetoric of moral reformers." By taking a literal stance against prostitution, the papers were then able to describe its manifestations in detail, including addresses of houses to which readers could go if they wished to be outraged in person.
The papers were a financial success, but their success made them a visible target for libel suits from those who were treated badly in their pages or from law enforcement's efforts to improve the citizens' morals. The owners of _The Flash_ were indicted for publishing an obscene paper in 1842, and other suits against the papers charged that they inspired lust and intended "to debauch, injure, debase, and corrupt" the youth of the city. It was possibly the first time the courts were used as censors of sexual matter. The authors show that like most states, New York had no anti-obscenity law at the time; this would not happen until the federal Comstock Law of 1873, which banned circulation of printed matter containing such obscenities as information about contraception. The English common law tradition, imported to the U.S., served as a basis for the prosecutions, which were generally successful and shut the papers down after their short but lucrative runs. The First Amendment was held more as a protection for states against the federal government, not for citizens against governmental intrusion, and was not a factor in obscenity proceedings until the tradition of dissent that emerged after the Civil War. During the twentieth century, obscenity decisions would overturn many of the common law assumptions that had ended the flash press, which was succeeded by milder "police gazettes" that had similar themes. The flash press thus is important both for having played a substantial role in the history of government prosecution of naughtiness and for giving a picture of the sporting, manly urban life of the mid-nineteenth century. Both roles are well documented in this appealing volume of historical commentary and excerpts and engravings from the papers themselves.
2008-06-13
By Ann M. Altman (Connecticut)
I ordered this book after reading an interesting review in the Sunday New York Times. I found it heavy going and gradually became bored. The authors don't have the necessary narrative spark to bring what should be a fascinating topic alive and there is a surfeit of tedious and repetitive information that seems to take the reader round in circles.
2008-05-31
By Kerry Walters (Lewisburg, PA USA)
Every once in awhile, when I was a kid back in the late 50s and early 60s, I'd run across a "men's magazine" carelessly left lying around the house by my dad. Compared to what's offered by today's sex industry, the stuff was pretty tame: stories of conquest that were no more heated than a typical true romance novel, ribald jokes and cartoons, the occasional flash of a breast or an unshod, nyloned foot.
What I didn't know until I read The Flash Press is that dad's men's magazines were tame by standards a century earlier, too. As chronicled by Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy Gilfoyle, and Helen Horowitz, the two decades preceding the Civil War gave rise to a lively men's magazine market in New York City that offered bawdy tales, suggestive drawings, a celebration of libertinism, libelous gossip, and actual addresses of fallen ladies who (as the articles slyly intimated) had no recourse left them but to turn their misfortune into a source of income, and who would naturally welcome gentlemen callers. Oh my.
Predictably, there was a market for this sort of thing. (I can imagine respectable 1840s New York men surreptitiously buying and reading the papers, just like respectable men of my father's generation did.) There was such a demand, in fact, that eventually there were four of these rags to choose from. Each was printed on poor quality paper with smudgy printing and sold for under 10 cents an issue. But the production quality wasn't really what buyers were interested in. What they were after was the hot contents of came to be known as the "flash press."
The trendsetter was "The Flash," founded in 1841 by a ne'er-do-well named William Snelling, a West Point dropout, dipsomaniac, and failed poet who would later relocate to Boston and become the editor of the very respectable "Boston Herald." Soon several competitors were on the market--"The Whip," "The Rake," and "The Libertine"--and despite occasional lawsuits and legal hassles, they egged one another on in achieving new heights of raceyness. Everything went okay for a couple of years. But then New York district attorney James Whiting decided to pull the plug on the flash press, and that early chapter in the history of men's magazines came to an end.
Reading the selections from these papers excerpted in The Flash Press can be a surreal experience. The language is in the stilted style of the early 19th century--sometimes, as a matter of fact, the strange combination of overdone punctuation, stiff rhetoric, and risque subject matter reminds one of the earlier Fannie Hill. Cohen, Gilfoye, and Horowitz's analysis of the material--its social and cultural context, broader questions about erotica in general, and the history of the sometimes humorous in-fighting between the various editors of the flash press publications--makes this an entertaining and fascinating read.
Highly recommended.
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* "The Rake," 3 September 1842
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[cue the voice from "The Shadow"] "Who knows what lurks in dusty archives? Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz know!" [evil laugh]
This is a highly useful book which is academic but not dry. It can be read by social historians, literary history people, and Boston or New York local history buffs with good benefit, but the general reader will get a great glimpse of a little-documented piece of Americana. I read it because I am trying to trace the elusive William Joseph Snelling, one of the biggies in the flash press whom the authors document with wonderful bird-dog sleuthing. Snelling would have been proud.
The authors have worked with a set of previously undocumented "gentlemen's sporting press" newspapers from the 1840s. Copies of them have miraculously survived in collections but have not been really studied before these authors met and collaborated. Some of the extant originals came from evidence files from the police! Here is America's underbelly, including some amazing images that document antebellum sleaze. Reminds me of the early days of _Playboy Magazine_ when undergrads quoted the Playboy Advisor as a way to score some status with the opposite sex and with other undergrads in late night bull sessions. When you read, try to pretend that you don't live in a world of sex everywhere--imagine how exciting it would be to come across a publication that told you about whorehouses, local police and local madames, nasty diseases, and more.
My compliments to the authors!
By R. Hardy (Columbus, Mississippi USA)
In the 1840s, New Yorkers didn't have _Hustler_ or _Screw_ magazine, but they didn't go without their titillation in print. They could get to the newsstand and buy _The Flash_, _The Rake_, _The Whip_, or _The Libertine_, and get a dash of bold, provocative, and spicy prose, with saucy pictures. The papers are long gone, and would have been forgotten ephemera had not a treasure trove of them shown up twenty years ago. Three professors of history, Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, have examined the lot and, with admirable academic objectivity and distance, have described the papers and given context for them in _The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York_ (University of Chicago Press). That doesn't keep the book from being fun, for all it's footnotes and references. Not only do the authors give a history of the papers, a summary of their contents, a description of the sexual politics of the time, and a report of the trials to which their editors, writers, and publishers were put, but also almost half of the book's text is reprints in full of stories from the press. The flash press must have been shocking entertainment in its time, and _The Flash Press_ proves to be entertaining history in our own.
The papers may have made a great noise in their short time of existence (1841 - 1843) but they were then forgotten a cache of them was found. Newsboys would hawk the papers for perhaps six cents apiece, and readers could pay twenty-five cents to insert gossip. The papers also printed threats of revealing who owned brothels or other embarrassing material, making money by blackmail. The flash press was often literally pornography, if you remember that etymologically "pornography" means "harlot writing". Much of the print in the flash press had to do with brothels, reporting upon particular houses or the charms of certain ladies, or on celebrations and balls held by the prostitutes. Some of the income of the press came from brothel-keepers who paid bribes to have their businesses puffed. But the remarks on "the sinful trade of prostitution" are in keeping with what the authors say is the great paradox of the flash press: "it indulged in verbal pornographic image-making while simultaneously employing the language and rhetoric of moral reformers." By taking a literal stance against prostitution, the papers were then able to describe its manifestations in detail, including addresses of houses to which readers could go if they wished to be outraged in person.
The papers were a financial success, but their success made them a visible target for libel suits from those who were treated badly in their pages or from law enforcement's efforts to improve the citizens' morals. The owners of _The Flash_ were indicted for publishing an obscene paper in 1842, and other suits against the papers charged that they inspired lust and intended "to debauch, injure, debase, and corrupt" the youth of the city. It was possibly the first time the courts were used as censors of sexual matter. The authors show that like most states, New York had no anti-obscenity law at the time; this would not happen until the federal Comstock Law of 1873, which banned circulation of printed matter containing such obscenities as information about contraception. The English common law tradition, imported to the U.S., served as a basis for the prosecutions, which were generally successful and shut the papers down after their short but lucrative runs. The First Amendment was held more as a protection for states against the federal government, not for citizens against governmental intrusion, and was not a factor in obscenity proceedings until the tradition of dissent that emerged after the Civil War. During the twentieth century, obscenity decisions would overturn many of the common law assumptions that had ended the flash press, which was succeeded by milder "police gazettes" that had similar themes. The flash press thus is important both for having played a substantial role in the history of government prosecution of naughtiness and for giving a picture of the sporting, manly urban life of the mid-nineteenth century. Both roles are well documented in this appealing volume of historical commentary and excerpts and engravings from the papers themselves.
By Ann M. Altman (Connecticut)
I ordered this book after reading an interesting review in the Sunday New York Times. I found it heavy going and gradually became bored. The authors don't have the necessary narrative spark to bring what should be a fascinating topic alive and there is a surfeit of tedious and repetitive information that seems to take the reader round in circles.
By Kerry Walters (Lewisburg, PA USA)
Every once in awhile, when I was a kid back in the late 50s and early 60s, I'd run across a "men's magazine" carelessly left lying around the house by my dad. Compared to what's offered by today's sex industry, the stuff was pretty tame: stories of conquest that were no more heated than a typical true romance novel, ribald jokes and cartoons, the occasional flash of a breast or an unshod, nyloned foot.
What I didn't know until I read The Flash Press is that dad's men's magazines were tame by standards a century earlier, too. As chronicled by Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy Gilfoyle, and Helen Horowitz, the two decades preceding the Civil War gave rise to a lively men's magazine market in New York City that offered bawdy tales, suggestive drawings, a celebration of libertinism, libelous gossip, and actual addresses of fallen ladies who (as the articles slyly intimated) had no recourse left them but to turn their misfortune into a source of income, and who would naturally welcome gentlemen callers. Oh my.
Predictably, there was a market for this sort of thing. (I can imagine respectable 1840s New York men surreptitiously buying and reading the papers, just like respectable men of my father's generation did.) There was such a demand, in fact, that eventually there were four of these rags to choose from. Each was printed on poor quality paper with smudgy printing and sold for under 10 cents an issue. But the production quality wasn't really what buyers were interested in. What they were after was the hot contents of came to be known as the "flash press."
The trendsetter was "The Flash," founded in 1841 by a ne'er-do-well named William Snelling, a West Point dropout, dipsomaniac, and failed poet who would later relocate to Boston and become the editor of the very respectable "Boston Herald." Soon several competitors were on the market--"The Whip," "The Rake," and "The Libertine"--and despite occasional lawsuits and legal hassles, they egged one another on in achieving new heights of raceyness. Everything went okay for a couple of years. But then New York district attorney James Whiting decided to pull the plug on the flash press, and that early chapter in the history of men's magazines came to an end.
Reading the selections from these papers excerpted in The Flash Press can be a surreal experience. The language is in the stilted style of the early 19th century--sometimes, as a matter of fact, the strange combination of overdone punctuation, stiff rhetoric, and risque subject matter reminds one of the earlier Fannie Hill. Cohen, Gilfoye, and Horowitz's analysis of the material--its social and cultural context, broader questions about erotica in general, and the history of the sometimes humorous in-fighting between the various editors of the flash press publications--makes this an entertaining and fascinating read.
Highly recommended.
________
* "The Rake," 3 September 1842
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A collection of the best teaching tips, ideas, articles and creative learning activities from issues 22-26 of Holidays & Seasonal Celebrations magazine is sure to give you something to celebrate every day of the school year!
The selections in this book represent some of the most innovative and frequently requested materials. The recurring holidays, seasons and themes are always timely and a favorite way to motivate young children. Each season presents pages of clip art; age-appropriate outdoor learning discoveries and seasonal and holiday crafts, projects, book reviews, stories, take-home newsletters, snacks, calendars, ideas and activities.
Fall brings ways to celebrate children's birthdays throughout the year; back-to-school activities; Autumn Antics include crafts, proj-ects and experiments; Grandparents' Day fun; Halloween stories and book reviews and Thanksgiving crafts. Winter is full of snow-related activities, Snowman Math, Seasonal Science for winter, Christmas Critter Crafts, a Christmas skit, Kwanzaa activities, Valentine book reviews and much more. Spring and summer are celebrated with wind activities, a unit on National Peanut Month in March, Egg-Citing Activities, gift ideas for Moms and Dads, End-of-School Activities, units on birds and butterflies, plus many more holiday and seasonal activities.
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This guide demonstrates how to look beautiful through each stage of your life by experimenting with new make-up techniques and hair styles. It gives the low-down on plastic sugery, laser facials, botox and other cutting edge procedures, and lists health tips, exercise routines and dietary advice.
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I bought this book to whip myself into shape for my wedding day. (I bought this and Pedersen's other book, KISS Guide to Planning a Wedding, at the same time.) It worked. The book was so filled with smart advice that I was able to concentrate on those things that were going to actually make a difference in my looks, while avoiding those which werw a waste of time and money. Like another reviewer said, I love that there is also information on creating a beautiful life and an aura of beautifulness.
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Having read numerous beauty and "improve your lifestyle" type books, I feel qualified to say KISS Guide to Beauty is the best I've come across. Great information given in an entertaining way (Pedersen can be very funny). The book goes much further than most beauty books do--discusses things like how to create a beautiful "persona" and is beautiful look at as well.
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So you're ready to look better--a lot better. You know you need help, but you're unsure where to turn. A beauty book, perhaps? But which one? THose model-written books are too unrealistic, those makeup-artists books are too weird. Other books aren't in-depth enough. What you want is something to give you the nitty-gritty, behind the scenes, all-encompassing makeup, hair, skin, body and cosmetic surgery secrets that will make you look as gorgeous as you can--and more gorgeous than anyone you know! KISS Guide to Beauty is that book. It not only gives you specific tips to make you look gorgeous, it tells you how to go about creating that unique aura that all unforgettably beautiful women have. I've bought copies for myself and four of my closest friends. This book is that good!
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By Girl on the go! (Northeast, USA)
I bought this book to whip myself into shape for my wedding day. (I bought this and Pedersen's other book, KISS Guide to Planning a Wedding, at the same time.) It worked. The book was so filled with smart advice that I was able to concentrate on those things that were going to actually make a difference in my looks, while avoiding those which werw a waste of time and money. Like another reviewer said, I love that there is also information on creating a beautiful life and an aura of beautifulness.
By Lady Me (Chicago)
Having read numerous beauty and "improve your lifestyle" type books, I feel qualified to say KISS Guide to Beauty is the best I've come across. Great information given in an entertaining way (Pedersen can be very funny). The book goes much further than most beauty books do--discusses things like how to create a beautiful "persona" and is beautiful look at as well.
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I loved this guide! It's quick, easy to read, and features tons of little tidbits that I found fascinating. Stephanie Pederson has done her research. Everything you need to know about skin care, body care, nail care and more can be found in this handy manual with tons of pictures and details to match. Also answered a lot of questions I had with detailed explanations and definitions. I recommend this book whole-heartedly!
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So you're ready to look better--a lot better. You know you need help, but you're unsure where to turn. A beauty book, perhaps? But which one? THose model-written books are too unrealistic, those makeup-artists books are too weird. Other books aren't in-depth enough. What you want is something to give you the nitty-gritty, behind the scenes, all-encompassing makeup, hair, skin, body and cosmetic surgery secrets that will make you look as gorgeous as you can--and more gorgeous than anyone you know! KISS Guide to Beauty is that book. It not only gives you specific tips to make you look gorgeous, it tells you how to go about creating that unique aura that all unforgettably beautiful women have. I've bought copies for myself and four of my closest friends. This book is that good!
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The Truth About Black Hairstyles: The Whole Story Revealed
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This is the book that puts an end to the mystery and confusion surrounding Black hair. After reading this book, you will understand the origins, the secrets, the misinformation and the bold face lies told about Black hair. You will discover why so many are deathly afraid of it and why others have gone to drastic measures in attempts to eliminate it. It is not everyday that a book about hair comes along that speaks to both your heart and your head. This one does that and more. What the Kenyattas uncover about this sensitive subject goes way beyond the hair issue and will certainly put them on the front line of the controversy battles. They give voice to what most people think regarding the topic but few have the courage and knowledge to say or put in correct perspective. A reading of this book will profoundly affect your thinking now and... for years to come.
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2001 (Best American Magazine Writing)
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In the world of magazines, no recognition is more highly coveted than an "Ellie," the National Magazine Award presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors to the best of the American magazines. The Awards are the magazine equivalents to the Pulitzer Prizes of the newspaper industry. Each year, hundreds of editors-in-chief, journalism professors, and art directors winnow more than a thousand submissions to about seventy-five nominees in categories such as Reporting, Feature Writing, Profiles, Public Interest, Essays, Reviews and Criticism. Interest in the nominees is keen, and this collection will allow people both in the magazine world and beyond to find in one place, read, and admire the year's best. It is a wonderful, browsable volume of interest to writers and readers who appreciate magazine writing and journalism at its highest level.
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No one could possibly take The New Yorker, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Esquire,The American Scholar, the Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Time, Gourmet, Harper's and Vanity Fair and read all the stories in them every month for a year. But what if the greatest experts, The American Society of Magazine Editors read 1,586 stories and picked just the best 17 of them for you to read. Even if you didn't think you'd like the subject, you will love reading each and every one of these. I'm using it for a seminar I'm giving -- one article and its author to discuss each week for 14 weeks. It's Terrific!!!
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It's a long book, so I thought it would last. No such luck. The writing is simply amazing, across the board. Buy it, enjoy it.
By Baman Motivala (Stockholm)
For anyone who enjoys feature writing and investigative journalism this is an excellent read. I have made it through 9 of the 17 stories and have thoroughly enjoyed 8 of them. The topics are broad (John McCain, seal hunting in Greenland, a fat wine critic, campaign finance reform and many more.) The writing is so good that even topics that usually bore me (wine for one) became interesting.
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No matter who you are, what your interests or where your political affiliations lie, if you enjoy reading good writing, you will enjoy this book. It represents some of the tightest, best researched and most insightful writing of a year's worth of magazine articles. The magazines in which the articles were originally published range from The Atlantic Monthly to Zoetrope: All-Story (did they include the ends of the alphabet for such a sentence as this?). The subjects, writing styles and tones of the stories smatter widely, but have in common one thing: they are stories worth your while. You could be forced to walk, sit and suffer with John McCain through his torturous 5-year imprisonment in a North Vietnamese p.o.w. camp, as well as with the cast of characters behind one week of McCain's presidential campaign tour. You could bask in the glory of Bob Parker, a burly, middle-aged Maryland guy whose freakishly acute sense of smell, coupled with his rigid integrity, led to his publication of The Wine Advocate and the author's well-founded claim that Parker may be "single-handedly changing the history of wine." The book is replete with the end product of authors whose diligence, sensitivity and dexterity with the English language have culminated in some rock-solid reading.
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The Mullet: Hairstyle of the Gods
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The mullet-cut is a style in which the hair is short at the front coupled with a long mane at the back. Popular in the 1980s, entering the zeitgeist and becoming the hairstyle to have, the mullet is now in decline. The authors examine all areas of the phenomenon, from mullets in pop to advertising.
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See more technical detailsBy Author Brian Wallace (Mind Transmission, Inc.) (Texas)
The Mullet is the crowning accomplishment of white trash icons everywhere. They wear their coifs with feigned ignorance and blissful indifference to the profound impact they make.
Long live the fashion trendsetters and indomitable champions of bad taste. Your trucks...your bumper stickers...your hair...your charm!
Variety is truly the spice of life!
By rob price (norwood, pa usa)
i love this book it is my bible i use it everyday
By K. Watson (Australia)
Those people requiring a weird gift for a birthday, trailer park bridal party, etc, could do worse than giving this book a go. It's full of great pictures of fine heads, stories, and special features that give people a taste of the mullet lifestyle.
Personally I found it a bit short, however, and wouldn't buy it for *my own* collection - it's a read-once book. Buy it for a friend and read it before you wrap it, or better still get the local library to buy it instead (I did!).
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I loved this book, it was great.. Pure fun!!!!!! The Mullet is a national treasure just like Jackie O. Spotting Mullet's is becoming the national pastime, I love going to the mall Mullet watching. I've also come to realize that carnival workers usually have the best Mullet's. For all you folks out there sporting the funniest haircut of all time, please don't change your hair style. You are providing us Mullet watchers with countless hours of fun & laughter. "AND REMEMBER FEAR THE MULLET"
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This book was so awesome I had to buy one for me and one as a gift. My only complaint is that it isn't longer!
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