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