Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (830 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 006079870X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 592 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Blindness in 1890 was, according to Morris, virtually a death sentence, and Pulitzer’s life became one long stay in shaded rooms in between increasingly desperate cures. Louis newspaper after the war. From Booklist *Starred Review* Journalist and biographer Morris sums up the range of this biography in an author’s note: “In the nineteenth century, when America became an industrialized nation and Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil, Morgan the money, and Vanderbilt the railroads, Joseph Pulitzer was the midwife to the birth of the modern mass media.” Such a scope could leave the reader reeling in references, but Morris deftly outlines the transformations of this e
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. 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.. 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
HalSF said An essential new biography. This is the first major life of Joseph Pulitzer (18An essential new biography HalSF This is the first major life of Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911) since W. A. Swanberg's 1967 biography, but it's far more than merely an updated portrait. Its two-fold achievement is to restore a giant figure in the history of American journalism, business, and politics--a man who's been half-lo. 7-1911) since W. A. Swanberg's 1967 biography, but it's far more than merely an updated portrait. Its two-fold achievement is to restore a giant figure in the history of American journalism, business, and politics--a man who's been half-lo. Pulitzer Matters, More Than You Know Joseph Pulitzer's story is a classic American rags-to-riches-to-sellout saga. A Jewish immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer made his way in the rough-and-tumble newspaper business of Missouri after the Civil War. Allying his newspapers with the "little man" against the big shots, Pulitzer inven. An ImPRESSive Work In the style of Ron Chernow and Jeane Strouse, James McGrath Morris has provided a robust and sterling account of one of the most important, yet very complicated giants in American history. In the hands of this sublime biographer the tale of Hungarian-born Joseph Pulitzer leaps in grand fas