Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
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This epic biography, with its remarkable new research and vivid, fast-paced writing, will delight anyone who wants to understand the tangled history of politics and the press in modern America.” —Debby Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
“James McGrath Morris has given us everything we could have asked for in his new biography of Joseph Pulitzer. Gracefully written and thoroughly researched, his biography is easily the best we have on this remarkable man who so profoundly influenced the worlds of politics and publishing.” — David Nasaw, author of Andrew Carnegie
Pulitzer is James McGrath Morris’s definitive biography of the Jewish Hungarian immigrant who created the modern American mass media—the first comprehensive biography of this remarkable historical icon in more than 40 years.
James McGrath Morris
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.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An excellent biography of Pulitzer, whose life makes for totally engrossing reading (though he seemed like a total pill). The author's deep and thorough research is obvious, but the book remains thoroughly readable.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Update: one of the best books I've read in a long time. Pulitzer shaped this country with his sharp intelligence and insistence on journalistic independence. I highly recommend it to biography lovers and anyone who wants to understand that time in America's history.
I won a copy through First Reads and it arrived today! I've just started it, but so far it's an entertaining, informative read. Looking forward to more of the same. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The name “Pulitzer” is familiar because of the journalism awards given annually in his name. James McGrath Morris fleshes out Joseph Pulitzer, whose own contributions to journalism might never have won one of his prizes. He started out as a penniless Hungarian immigrant, traveling to America as a mercenary soldier during the Civil War, and became one of the richest men in America – able to float a 300’ yacht with a crew in the dozens, a retinue of attendants to meet his personal needs and enough fuel to keep him on the high seas for weeks. He spent much of his life having only one living relative from his birth family, a younger brother he pretty much ignored – plus a wife he took great pains to avoid (except to harangue her about money); and a passel of children (so we know he didn’t ignore his wife entirely) whom he alternately neglected and bullied. And Pulitzer certainly wasn’t any more benevolent to the people who worked for him. He could, even by long distance, keep them under his thumb – he was one of the first great micromanagers – and terrify grown men with his capricious nastiness. His feuds with fellow media baron William Randolph Hearst (which brought the term “yellow journalism” to us) and President Theodore Roosevelt are the stuff of legends. So, Joseph Pulitzer wasn’t a man we’d invite over for an evening of dinner and pinochle. Nevertheless, James McGrath Morris does a wonderful job of ferreting out details that make his subject come alive for readers. I’ve read a lot of biographies of media types, and Pulitzer is right up there with the best of them. How he parlayed his small pile of money into ownership of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (which turned out a tidy profit every year and benefited by being left alone by the boss) and the New York World and Evening World is fascinating stuff.