Swanberg, W. A.
Pulitzer W. A. Swanberg - New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1967 - xiv, 462 p.
Includes Bibliography and Index
List of illustrations --
Part 1: Angry Young Man: --
Chapter 1: Westward ho!: --
Goat of Company L --
Unburied corpses --
Search for independence --
Chapter 2: Bitten by politics: --
Murderous intent --
Breaking with Grant --
Chapter 3: Right hand of Schurz: --
Dream of reform --
Cincinnati fiasco --
Stumping for Greeley --
Republican turns democrat --
Chapter 4: Love on the run: --
Resolute Pulitzer, irresolute Tilden --
Not worthy of such love --
Uncertain and inconstant --
Politician's honeymoon --
Part 2: Sensationalist: --
Chapter 1: How to win circulation: --
Colossal nerve --
Pistol-packing editor --
Chapter 2: Road to power: --
Electionitis --
Beaten by the bourbons --
Loudest voice on the Mississippi --
Chapter 3: Unwelcome in St Louis: --
Killing at the post-dispatch --
Gentlemen, a change has taken place --
Part 3: Triumph: --
Chapter 1: Reformer and salesman: --
New social conscience --
Democrats, unite! --
Bucking the establishment --
Chapter 2: Electing a president: --
Defection of Dana --
Ma! Ma! Where's my pa? --
Burn this letter! --
Chapter 3: Disenchantment: --
Walking the bowery --
Office seekers --
Rescuing the goddess --
Creative mental power --
Looking for suggestive men --
Chapter 4: Nerves on edge: --
Profane philanthropist --
Four-month congressman --
Boodling Aldermen --
Electing a mayor --
Chapter 5: Spinning like a top: --
Democrat in Babylon --
What is fortune without health? --
Star-spangled tights --
Chapter 6: Feud with Dana: --
Renegade Jew --
Move on, Pulitzer!
Part 4: Disaster: --
Chapter 1: Breakdown: --
Tortured nerves, failing eyesight --
Revenge on Dana --
Defying the doctors --
Chapter 2: Searching for health: --
Two world travelers --
Golden dome --
Exit cockerill --
Espionage --
Chapter 3: Editor in absentia: --
Interrogator --
Sacrificing pleasure --
No cards, no chess --
Chapter 4: Jones problem: --
Confusion in the dome --
Confusion in St Louis --
Chapter 5: Loneliest man in the world: --
Piggery nero, pigeon Nelson --
Roosevelt saloon crisis --
Smash the ring! --
Part 5: War With Hearst: --
Chapter 1: Persuasion by checkbook: --
How to crush gush --
Recruiting --
Chapter 2: Plague of Bryan: --
Hearst's burning money --
Damn your impertinence --
Business as usual --
Chapter 3: Cuba: --
Waiting for Phoebe --
Poisoned quail --
Imitating imitations --
Disagreeably agreeing --
Chapter 4: Journalistic dramaturgy: --
Flower of Cuba --
Hearst going broke? --
Exit Brisbane --
Checking on the staff --
Chapter 5: War and peace: --
Nearest approach to hell --
Losing money --
Normal newspaper --
Part 6: Schoolmaster: --
Chapter 1: Grooming the admiral: --
Gentleman wants companion --
Dewey says no --
Dewey says yes --
Chapter 2: Twentieth century: --
Stir him up, club him up --
Pursuing white mice --
Bird in a gilded cage --
Geranium and genuine --
Noisy eating --
Chapter 3: Eccentricities of Andes: --
Family circle --
Hire a man who gets drunk --
Judge of all the earth --
Mayor McClellan's shocker --
Rat fight --
Chapter 4: Fever of 1904: --
Two million for Columbia --
Discovering Frank Cobb --
Gush, guilder and glutinous --
Chapter 5: Insurance scandal: --
$644,000 failure --
Ball at Sherry's --
Don't be unnecessarily cruel --
Chapter 6: Nerves in tatters: --
Pulitzer-Vanderbilt entente --
Suspicion and despair --
Manners of a horse --
Utterly unreasonable --
Chapter 7: Artificial world: --
My long longed for friend --
Kicking Homer --
Complete control --
Unpresidential glutinous conduct --
Big drink of whiskey --
Chapter 8: Roosevelt vs Pulitzer: --
Intrigue over Panama --
My God! No proof! --
Big man of all newspapers --
Who got the money? --
Chapter 9: Pulitzer-and the press-victorious: --
No use, my dear boy --
Red thread --
Course in journalism --
Chapter 10: Last election: --
I've seen it all --
Don't paint the devil as black as he is --
Walking the tightrope --
Liberty-ha! --
Most people think I'm dead --
Afterword: Decline and fall --
Author's note and acknowledgments --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index.
This is the life size portrait of a man of genius and an eccentric of unique proportions. Joseph Pulitzer revolutionized American journalism and exerted a powerful, progressive effect on Ameican life. He did this by the force of a personality that was as admirable as it was outrageous.
Pulitzer, Joseph 1847-1911
Publishers and publishing --Biography.-- United States
Journalists --Biography-- United States
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Pulitzer W. A. Swanberg - New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1967 - xiv, 462 p.
Includes Bibliography and Index
List of illustrations --
Part 1: Angry Young Man: --
Chapter 1: Westward ho!: --
Goat of Company L --
Unburied corpses --
Search for independence --
Chapter 2: Bitten by politics: --
Murderous intent --
Breaking with Grant --
Chapter 3: Right hand of Schurz: --
Dream of reform --
Cincinnati fiasco --
Stumping for Greeley --
Republican turns democrat --
Chapter 4: Love on the run: --
Resolute Pulitzer, irresolute Tilden --
Not worthy of such love --
Uncertain and inconstant --
Politician's honeymoon --
Part 2: Sensationalist: --
Chapter 1: How to win circulation: --
Colossal nerve --
Pistol-packing editor --
Chapter 2: Road to power: --
Electionitis --
Beaten by the bourbons --
Loudest voice on the Mississippi --
Chapter 3: Unwelcome in St Louis: --
Killing at the post-dispatch --
Gentlemen, a change has taken place --
Part 3: Triumph: --
Chapter 1: Reformer and salesman: --
New social conscience --
Democrats, unite! --
Bucking the establishment --
Chapter 2: Electing a president: --
Defection of Dana --
Ma! Ma! Where's my pa? --
Burn this letter! --
Chapter 3: Disenchantment: --
Walking the bowery --
Office seekers --
Rescuing the goddess --
Creative mental power --
Looking for suggestive men --
Chapter 4: Nerves on edge: --
Profane philanthropist --
Four-month congressman --
Boodling Aldermen --
Electing a mayor --
Chapter 5: Spinning like a top: --
Democrat in Babylon --
What is fortune without health? --
Star-spangled tights --
Chapter 6: Feud with Dana: --
Renegade Jew --
Move on, Pulitzer!
Part 4: Disaster: --
Chapter 1: Breakdown: --
Tortured nerves, failing eyesight --
Revenge on Dana --
Defying the doctors --
Chapter 2: Searching for health: --
Two world travelers --
Golden dome --
Exit cockerill --
Espionage --
Chapter 3: Editor in absentia: --
Interrogator --
Sacrificing pleasure --
No cards, no chess --
Chapter 4: Jones problem: --
Confusion in the dome --
Confusion in St Louis --
Chapter 5: Loneliest man in the world: --
Piggery nero, pigeon Nelson --
Roosevelt saloon crisis --
Smash the ring! --
Part 5: War With Hearst: --
Chapter 1: Persuasion by checkbook: --
How to crush gush --
Recruiting --
Chapter 2: Plague of Bryan: --
Hearst's burning money --
Damn your impertinence --
Business as usual --
Chapter 3: Cuba: --
Waiting for Phoebe --
Poisoned quail --
Imitating imitations --
Disagreeably agreeing --
Chapter 4: Journalistic dramaturgy: --
Flower of Cuba --
Hearst going broke? --
Exit Brisbane --
Checking on the staff --
Chapter 5: War and peace: --
Nearest approach to hell --
Losing money --
Normal newspaper --
Part 6: Schoolmaster: --
Chapter 1: Grooming the admiral: --
Gentleman wants companion --
Dewey says no --
Dewey says yes --
Chapter 2: Twentieth century: --
Stir him up, club him up --
Pursuing white mice --
Bird in a gilded cage --
Geranium and genuine --
Noisy eating --
Chapter 3: Eccentricities of Andes: --
Family circle --
Hire a man who gets drunk --
Judge of all the earth --
Mayor McClellan's shocker --
Rat fight --
Chapter 4: Fever of 1904: --
Two million for Columbia --
Discovering Frank Cobb --
Gush, guilder and glutinous --
Chapter 5: Insurance scandal: --
$644,000 failure --
Ball at Sherry's --
Don't be unnecessarily cruel --
Chapter 6: Nerves in tatters: --
Pulitzer-Vanderbilt entente --
Suspicion and despair --
Manners of a horse --
Utterly unreasonable --
Chapter 7: Artificial world: --
My long longed for friend --
Kicking Homer --
Complete control --
Unpresidential glutinous conduct --
Big drink of whiskey --
Chapter 8: Roosevelt vs Pulitzer: --
Intrigue over Panama --
My God! No proof! --
Big man of all newspapers --
Who got the money? --
Chapter 9: Pulitzer-and the press-victorious: --
No use, my dear boy --
Red thread --
Course in journalism --
Chapter 10: Last election: --
I've seen it all --
Don't paint the devil as black as he is --
Walking the tightrope --
Liberty-ha! --
Most people think I'm dead --
Afterword: Decline and fall --
Author's note and acknowledgments --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index.
This is the life size portrait of a man of genius and an eccentric of unique proportions. Joseph Pulitzer revolutionized American journalism and exerted a powerful, progressive effect on Ameican life. He did this by the force of a personality that was as admirable as it was outrageous.
Pulitzer, Joseph 1847-1911
Publishers and publishing --Biography.-- United States
Journalists --Biography-- United States
921 Pul Swa 15