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Pulitzer : a life

Author: Denis Brian
Publisher: New York : J. Wiley, ©2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The rise of Joseph Pulitzer from Hungarian emigrant and Union soldier to the top of American journalism.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Joseph Pulitzer; Joseph Pulitzer; Joseph Pulitzer
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Denis Brian
ISBN: 0471332003 9780471332008
OCLC Number: 47140669
Description: viii, 438 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgments --
Introduction: Joseph Pulitzer and his "Indegoddampendent" world --
The fighting immigrant --
Upright, spirited, and dangerous --
Survives fire and marries --
Buys St. Louis Post-Dispatch --
President Garfield assassinated --
Jesse James "shot like a dog" --
Pulitzer takes over the world --
Puts a democrat in the White House --
Saves Statue of Liberty --
Haymarket Square massacre --
Nellie Bly goes crazy --
Tries to save his sight --
"An instrument of justice, a terror to crime" --
Nellie Bly races around the world --
Running the world by remote control --
Pulitzer's "Satanic journalism" --
Prevents war between the United States and Britain --
Fighting crime and William Randolph Hearst --
War fever --
Americans at war in Cuba --
For the Boers, against the British --
"Accuracy! Accuracy!! Accuracy!!!" --
President McKinley assassinated --
"Find a man who gets drunk and hire him" --
Euphemisms for abortion --
Breaking in Frank Cobb --
Unmasking corrupt insurance companies --
"I liked the way he swore" --
Protesting jingo agitation --
Secret double life of Rockefeller's father --
Roosevelt tries to send Pulitzer to prison --
"The big man of all American newspapers" --Roosevelt seeks revenge --
Victory! The last days --
The aftermath --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index.
Responsibility: Denis Brian.
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The rise of Joseph Pulitzer from Hungarian emigrant and Union soldier to the top of American journalism.

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