Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power

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 chronicles the epic story of Joseph Pulitzer, a Jewish Hungarian immigrant who amassed great wealth and extraordinary power during his remarkable rise through American politics and journalism. Based on years of research and newly discovered documents, Pulitzer is a classic, magisterial biography. It is a gripping portrait of the media baron who transformed American journalism into a medium of mass consumption and immense influence, and of the grueling legal battles he endured for freedom of the press that changed the landscape of American newspapers and politics.

Author: James McGrath Morris
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/01/2011
Pages: 592
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.08w x 1.14d
ISBN: 9780060798703
Award: New Mexico Book Awards - Winner
Award: New Mexico Book Awards - Winner

About the Author
Morris, James McGrath: -

James McGrath Morris is the author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power--which the Wall Street Journal deemed as one of the five best books on American moguls and Booklist placed on its list of the ten best biographies of 2010--and The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. He is one of the founders and past presidents of Biographers International Organization (BIO) and makes his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.