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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: The Political Origins of Modern Communications | |
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| Revolutions as Constitutive Moments | |
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| Communications and Power | |
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| The Path of American Development | |
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| The Opening of the Public Sphere, 1600-1860 | |
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| Early Modern Origins | |
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| The Diffusion and Control of Print | |
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| Networks and News | |
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| England's Opening | |
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| France and the Transnational Public | |
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| The De Facto Public Sphere | |
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| New Foundations | |
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| Colonial Legacies | |
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| The Revolution and the Public Sphere | |
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| Constitutional Choices | |
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| Why Rights Mattered | |
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| America's First Information Revolution | |
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| The Creation of the News Network | |
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| Privacy and Public Knowledge | |
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| The Democratization of Competence | |
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| An American Revolution in Communications | |
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| Capitalism and Democracy in Print | |
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| Publishing and the Limits of Copyright | |
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| The Revolution of Cheap Print | |
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| New Publics, New Markets | |
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| Center and Periphery in Antebellum America | |
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| The Consequences of Political Choice | |
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| The Rise of Technological Networks, 1840-1930 | |
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| The First Wire | |
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| A Path for the Telegraph | |
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| Monopoly on the Wires | |
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| Wiring the News | |
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| New Connections: Telephone, Cable, and Wireless | |
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| A Path for the Telephone | |
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| The Technology of Civil Society | |
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| Hello, Regulation | |
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| Wires, Waves, and Lines of Innovation | |
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| Communications and Strategic Advantage | |
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| The Making of the Modern Media, 1865-1941 | |
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| Great Transformations: The Early Mass Media and the Diversity Dynamic | |
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| The Rise of Moral Censorship | |
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| Diversity and Daily Journalism | |
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| Politics, Markets, and Magazines | |
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| The Local and Oppositional Press | |
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| The Rediscovery of the First Amendment | |
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| Free Speech Becomes a Cause | |
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| War as a Generative Crisis | |
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| The Liberal Turn of the Twenties | |
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| The Framing of the Movies | |
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| The Path to the Nickelodeon | |
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| Censorship and Diversity on the Screen | |
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| The Consolidation of Control | |
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| The Constitution of the Air (1): The Origins of Broadcasting | |
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| Clashes in the Ether | |
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| Divergent Paths | |
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| The Constitution of the Air (2): Creating the New Public Sphere | |
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| New Networks, New Powers | |
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| Censorship and Diversity on the Dial | |
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| Politics and the New Public Sphere | |
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| Networks and News | |
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| Coda: The Advent of the Media | |
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| The Sources of Media Power | |
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| The Media and Democracy | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |