NANCY WEATHERLY SHARP is a member of the faculty and Assistant Dean at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University. She is author of Communications Research: The Challenge of the Information Age (1988).JAMES ROGER SHARP is Professor of History at Syracuse University. He is author of American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis (1993, 1997) and The Jacksonians Versus the Banks: Politics in the States After the Panic of 1837 (1970), and several articles.Gina PetonitoKevin G. AtwaterCharles F. RitterJon L. Wakelyn