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The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York
Author
  • Patricia Cline Cohen
  • Timothy J. Gilfoyle
  • Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Set in New York City
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Publication date
May 2008
Pages 288
ISBN 9780226112343

The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York is a book written by Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, in association with the American Antiquarian Society, about the underground of 1840s New York City.

The Flash Press looks at four "Sporting Male Weeklies" that were found in New York between 1841–1843: The Flash (The Sunday Flash), The Libertine, The Weekly Rake, and The Whip.

The Flash Press takes a look at why these newspapers were considered to beo obscene. It also explores the individuals that these papers targeted: where they lived, where they worked and what was the appeal to them of the newspapers.

The introduction offers an overview of how the American Antiquarian Society came into possession of the newspapers, and how Cohen, Gilfoyle, and Horowitz came to research the newspapers and author The Flash Press.

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