Download or read book The Pamphleteers written by James A Oliver and published by INFORMATION ARCHITECTS. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era long before the advent of the periodical press, the pamphleteers were the world's proto-journalists. In this brief survey, the author includes vignettes on seven pamphleteers: Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Dekker, John Milton, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Tom Paine.