Pamphleteer - Definition and Overview

A pamphleteer is a historical term for someone who creates or distributes pamphlets in order to get people to vote for their favourite politician or to articulate a particular political ideology. A famous pamphleteer of the American Revolutionary War was Thomas Paine. Today a pamphleteer might communicate his missives by way of weblog, but before the advent of telecommunications, those with access to a printing press and a supply of paper used the pamphlet as a means of mass communications outside of newspapers or full-fledged books.

See also: broadside, ephemera, manuscript

External link

• From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/)
• The Foster pamphlet collection (http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/library/foster.html)

A company called "Pamphleteers" was the original publisher of Ayn Rand's book, "Anthem", in 1946.