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Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power

James McGrath Morris

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Summary

James McGrath Morris traces Joseph Pulitzer’s life and his place in American politics and publishing. The biography follows a Jewish immigrant from Hungary whose newspaper career helped shape modern American mass media. It examines politics, the press and publishing through the life of one influential newspaper owner.

  • SourcePulitzer — HarperCollins licensed original Google Books · Description and Bibliographic information; February 9, 2010 hardcover ISBN 9780060798697

Why read it Our view

Study the building of a mass-market newspaper and its politics, product and publishing model.

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  • Joseph PulitzerBiography.
    Morris researched Pulitzer and the World in Columbia's archives. This is a study of the publisher, not a book he recommended.
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