Pamphlet
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A pamphlet is an unbound small book or even a single sheet of paper. Pamphlets have long been an important tool of political protest and political campaigning for similar reasons.
A pamphleteer is a historical term for someone who creates or distributes pamphlets: for example in order to get people to vote for their favourite politician or to articulate a particular political ideology.
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
- Anonymity in publishing
- Counterculture
- manuscript
- Tract (literature)
- Hack writer
- Underground literature
- The pen is mightier than the sword
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