| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I. | Hamilton and the Founding of the “Evening Post” | [9] |
| II. | The “Evening Post” as Leader of the Federalist Press | [35] |
| III. | The City and the “Evening Post’s” Place in It | [63] |
| IV. | Literature and Drama in the Early “Evening Post” | [96] |
| V. | Bryant Becomes Editor | [121] |
| VI. | William Leggett Acting Editor: Depression, Rivalry, and Threatened Ruin | [139] |
| VII. | The Rise of the Slavery Question: the Mexican War | [166] |
| VIII. | New York Becomes a Metropolis: Central Park | [192] |
| IX. | Literary Aspects of Bryant’s Newspaper, 1830–1855 | [207] |
| X. | John Bigelow as an Editor of the “Evening Post” | [228] |
| XI. | Heated Politics Before the Civil War | [242] |
| XII. | The New York Press and Southern Secession | [267] |
| XIII. | The Critical Days of the Civil War | [284] |
| XIV. | Reconstruction and Impeachment | [326] |
| XV. | Bryant at the Height of His Fame as Editor | [338] |
| XVI. | Apartment Houses Rise and Tweed Falls | [364] |
| XVII. | Independence in Politics: the Elections of ’72 and ’76 | [389] |
| XVIII. | Two Rebel Literary Editors | [406] |
| XIX. | Warfare Within the Office: Parke Godwin’s Editorship | [420] |
| XX. | The Villard Purchase: Carl Schurz Editor-in-Chief | [438] |
| XXI. | Godkin, the Mugwump Movement, and Grover Cleveland’s Career | [458] |
| XXII. | Godkin’s War Without Quarter Upon Tammany | [476] |
| XXIII. | Opposing the Spanish War and Silver Craze | [496] |
| XXIV. | Characteristics of a Fighting Editor: E. L. Godkin | [519] |
| XXV. | News, Literature, Music, and Drama 1880–1900 | [546] |
| XXVI. | Horace White, Rollo Ogden, and the “Evening Post” Since 1900 | [568] |
| | Index | [581] |