Pamphleteer

Pamphleteer

A pamphleteer is a historical term for someone who creates or distributes pamphlets. Pamphlets were used to broadcast the writer's opinions on an issue, for example, in order to get people to vote for their favorite politician or to articulate a particular political ideology.

A famous pamphleteer of the American Revolutionary War was Thomas Paine. Another famous pamphleteer was Witte the With. Today a pamphleteer might communicate his missives by way of weblog, but before the advent of telecommunications, those with access to a printing press and a supply of paper used the pamphlet as a means of mass communications outside of newspapers or full-fledged books.

ee also

* Broadside
* Ephemera
* Manuscript

External links

* [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/ From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909]
* [http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/library/foster.html The Foster pamphlet collection]


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