Description
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: James McGrath Morris
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/01/2011
Pages: 592
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.08w x 1.14d
ISBN13: 9780060798703
ISBN10: 006079870X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical