Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
James McGrath Morris
ISBN 10: 0060798696 ISBN 13: 9780060798697
Published by Harper, 2010
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"Traces the epic story of the Jewish Hungarian immigrant s rise in the field of journalism, where he accumulated immense power and wealth, only to fall blind and become a tormented recluse wandering the globe, but not before he transformed U.S. journalism into a medium of mass consumption and immense influence. 25,000 first printing."
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Like Alfred Nobel, Joseph Pulitzer is better known today for the prize that bears his name than for his contribution to history. Yet, 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 traces the epic story of this Jewish Hungarian immigrant's rise through American politics and into journalism where he accumulated immense power and wealth, only to fall blind and become a lonely, tormented recluse wandering the globe. But not before Pulitzer transformed American journalism into a medium of mass consumption and immense influence. As the first media baron to recognize the vast social changes of the industrial revolution, he harnessed all the converging elements of entertainment, technology, business, and demographics, and made the newspaper an essential feature of urban life. Pulitzer used his influence to advance a progressive political agenda and his power to fight those who opposed him. The course he followed led him to battle Theodore Roosevelt who, when President, tried to send Pulitzer to prison. The grueling legal battles Pulitzer endured for freedom of the press changed the landscape of American newspapers and politics.
Based on years of research and newly discovered documents, Pulitzer is a classic, magisterial biography and a gripping portrait of an American icon.
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Publisher: Harper
Publication Date: 2010
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