Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Brian, Denis (1923-....)
Titre(s) : Pulitzer [Texte électronique] : a life / Denis Brian
Publication : New York : J. Wiley, cop. 2001
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (viii, 438 pages)
Sujet(s) : Journalistes
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780471217336
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42773020r
Notice n° :
FRBNF42773020
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.