Pulitzer

by Morris, James McGrath

• ISBN13: 9780060798703
• ISBN10: 006079870X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1900-01-01
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

In nineteenth-century industrial America, while Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil, Morgan the money, and Vanderbilt the railroads, Pulitzer ushered in the modern mass media. James McGrath Morris chronicles the epic story of Joseph Pulitzer, a Jewish Hungarian immigrant who amassed great wealth and extraordinary power during his remarkable rise through American politics and journalism. Based on years of research and newly discovered documents, "Pulitzer" is a classic, magisterial biography. It is a gripping portrait of the media baron who transformed American journalism into a medium of mass consumption and immense influence, and of the grueling legal battles he endured for freedom of the press that changed the landscape of American newspapers and politics.

Author Biography

James McGrath Morris is the author of the Rose Man of Sing Sing, selected as a Washington Post Best Book of 2004. He is the editor of the monthly Biographer's Craft, and his writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Observer, and other newspapers and magazines.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. xi
Prologue: Havana 1909	p. 1
1847-1878
Hungary	p. 9
Boots and Saddles	p. 20
The Promised Land	p. 29
Politics and Journalism	p. 43
Politics and Gunpowder	p. 56
Left Behind	p. 70
Politics and Rebellion	p. 80
Politics and Principle	p. 95
Founding Father	p. 111
Fraud and His Fraudulency	p. 124
Nannie and Kate	p. 138
1878-1888
A Paper of His Own	p. 149
Success	p. 162
Dark Lantern	p. 175
St. Louis Grows Small	p. 190
The Great Theater	p. 204
Kingmaker	p. 221
Raising Liberty	p. 233
A Blind Croesus	p. 248
1888-1911
Samson Agonistes	p. 269
Darkness	p. 284
Caged Eagle	p. 299
Trouble from the West	p. 319
Yellow	p. 337
The Great God Success	p. 349
Fleeing His Shadow	p. 361
Captured for the Ages	p. 383
Forever Unsatisfied	p. 399
Clash of Titans	p. 417
A Short Remaining Span	p. 441
Softly, Very Softly	p. 456
Acknowledgments	p. 465
Notes	p. 471
Bibliography	p. 531
Index	p. 537
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