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crl-15389	Ryan, Michael	Williams, Julie Hedgepeth. The Significance of the Printed Word in Early America: Colonists’ Thoughts on the Role of the Press. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pr. (Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications, no. 55), 1999. 298p. alk. paper (ISBN: 0-313-30923X). LC 98-41689.	2000	2	.pdf	application/pdf	988	52	64	From her journey through archives and libraries from New England to the Carolinas, she has turned up an interesting and occasionally pro­ vocative series of episodes and anecdotes concerning print culture in early America. The principal problem with the book is its apparent lack of familiarity with the formidable body of secondary literature on the book in early America that could have given Williams’s doctoral disserta­ tion perspective, context, and an argu­ ment.	cache/crl-15389.pdf	txt/crl-15389.txt