Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xiii], 448 pages, [16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-432) and index. |
Contents |
Fertile soil -- The patriarch -- Joseph Medill and the making of the president (1860) -- The great Chicago fire : Mayor Medill's personal phoenix -- The worst two she-devils in all of Chicago -- The Medill sisters' upward scramble -- Cissy comes of age -- The male cousins : heirs, pawns, victims, survivors -- Cissy : debutante countess -- Dynasty in jeopardy -- The countess and her admirers -- World War I and the creation of Colonel Robert R. McCormick -- The Jazz Age collides with The Chicago tribune -- The rise of the New York daily news : love, sex, money and murder -- The Cartier life -- The colonel of Chicagoland -- The editor wore emeralds : Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson's Washington Herald -- Alicia Patterson, surrogate son -- The bittersweet revenge of Alicia's Newsday -- Hubris : FDR and the McCormick-Patterson axis -- The cousins in winter -- Epilogue : after the Medill century. |
Summary |
The riveting story of the country's first media dynasty, the Medills of Chicago, whose power and influence shaped the story of America and American journalism for four generations. |
Subject |
Medill, Joseph, 1823-1899.
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Newspaper editors -- United States -- Biography.
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Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Biography.
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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McCormick, Robert R. (Robert Rutherford), 1880-1955.
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Patterson, Eleanor Medill, 1881-1948.
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Patterson, Alicia, 1906-1963.
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Newspaper publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Newspaper publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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ISBN |
9780061782237 hardback |
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0061782238 hardback |
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