Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (939 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375411003 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 720 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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But this lengthy book is never boring, because its subject is such an outrageously flamboyant and historically significant figure. Combining her subject's vitality with an accuracy and restraint wholly absent in the mercurial publisher, Smith gives us the fullest, fairest portrait we are ever likely to have of Cissy Patterson, her family, and their contentious approach to the news." -Richard Norton Smith in THE WEEKLY STANDARD"This book has it all: power, glamour, sex, war, and scandal. -SHELF-AWARENESS.COM . Cissy Patterson was a formidable figure in the American Century, and Amanda Smith has done a splendid job bringing the great newspaper publisher back to vivid life." -Jon Meacham"Newspaper Titan is exemplary." -COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW"Filled with more backstabbing, social climbing, and decadence than a season of Dynasty, Newspaper Titan is the story of canny Medill heiress&
Her grandfather was Joseph Medill, firebrand abolitionist, mayor of Chicago, editor in chief and principal owner of the Chicago Tribune, and one of the founders of the Republican Party who delivered the crucial Ohio delegation to Abraham Lincoln at the convention of 1860.Cissy Patterson's brother, Joe Medill Patterson, started the New York Daily News.Her pedigree notwithstanding, Cissy Patterson came to publishing shortly before her forty-ninth birthday, in 1930, with almost no practical journalistic or editorial experience and a life out of the pages of Edith Wharton (or more likely the other way around: shades of Cissy are everywhere in the Countess Olenska).Amanda Smith writes that in the summer of 1930, Cissy Patterson, educated at the turn of the century at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, for a vocation of marriage and motherhood and a place in society, took over William Randolph Hearst's foundering Washington Herald and began to learn what others believed she could never grasp--how to run and build up a newspaper. The effect of the merger was "electric"By 1945, the Washington Times-Herald, with ten daily editions, was clearing an annual profit of more than $1 million.Amanda Smith, in this huge, fascinating biography gives us the (infamous) life and monumental times of Cissy Patterson, scourge of liberals, advocate of appeasing Hitler, lover of poodles, and hater of FDR.Here is her twent
She is the editor of Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College. Amanda Smith was born and raised in New York City. . Kennedy. Smith lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children
Emma said How did I miss this story?. What a life! I had never heard of Cissy Patterson but I am glad I have now. This book tells the true story of a woman who lived a remarkable life and made an indelible mark in newspaper history. In the age of internet and "How did I miss this story?" according to Emma. What a life! I had never heard of Cissy Patterson but I am glad I have now. This book tells the true story of a woman who lived a remarkable life and made an indelible mark in newspaper history. In the age of internet and 2How did I miss this story? Emma What a life! I had never heard of Cissy Patterson but I am glad I have now. This book tells the true story of a woman who lived a remarkable life and made an indelible mark in newspaper history. In the age of internet and 24 hour news cycle it is fascinating to read and remember how important the daily newspaper was and how salacious they could be--Cissy Patterson knew that well. An enjoyable read, my only . hour news cycle it is fascinating to read and remember how important the daily newspaper was and how salacious they could be--Cissy Patterson knew that well. An enjoyable read, my only . How did I miss this story? Emma What a life! I had never heard of Cissy Patterson but I am glad I have now. This book tells the true story of a woman who lived a remarkable life and made an indelible mark in newspaper history. In the age of internet and 24 hour news cycle it is fascinating to read and remember how important the daily newspaper was and how salacious they could be--Cissy Patterson knew that well. An enjoyable read, my only . hour news cycle it is fascinating to read and remember how important the daily newspaper was and how salacious they could be--Cissy Patterson knew that well. An enjoyable read, my only . Meticulously composed Concordata I echo previous reviewers' acclaim for Cissy Patterson as a gripping subject and wish to add that Ms. Smith's research and composition are top-tier. There are no loose ends, no false leads, no shallow reporting, none of those weaknesses that can drive a biography reader crazy. The author compiled scores of sources and her 1300+ footnotes show she made good use of them, but the result is not numbing as can h. "FIRST-RATE! BEST BIOGRAPHY I'VE READ ALL YEAR!" according to Journey 5. NEWSPAPER TITAN is a great read, just what a biography should be. Cissy Patterson is a fascinating subject, and Amanda Smith covers her jaw-dropping life in engaging detail. I've read other accounts of the lives of members of the Medill family, but this is one of the few (like Richard Norton Smith's excellent biography of Cissy's cousin, Col. McCormick) to treat its subject seriously and accurately.Smith ha