Pulitzer : a life /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
J. Wiley,
[2001]
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Table of 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.