Pulitzer：A Life in Politics, Print, and Power

Innineteenth-centuryindustrialAmerica,whileCarnegieprovidedthesteel,Rockefellertheoil,Morganthemoney,andVanderbilttherailroads,Pulitzerusheredinthemodernmassmedia.JamesMcGrathMorrischroniclestheepicstoryofJosephPulitzer,aJewishHungarianimmigrantwhoamassedgreatwealthandextraordinarypowerduringhisremarkablerisethroughAmericanpoliticsandjournalism.Basedonyearsofresearchandnewlydiscovereddocuments,Pulitzerisaclassic,magisterialbiography.ItisagrippingportraitofthemediabaronwhotransformedAmericanjournalismintoamediumofmassconsumptionandimmenseinfluence,andofthegruelinglegalbattlesheenduredforfreedomofthepressthatchangedthelandscapeofAmericannewspapersandpolitics.