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A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
by James Mcgrath Morris
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.
"Starred Review. With a breezy prose style and expository endnotes taking earlier secondary sources to account, this is highly recommended for both casual readers and students of the history of American journalism between the Civil War and World War I." - Library Journal
"Morris offers a substantial, balanced biography of a complicated, mesmerizing figure...a Horatio Alger tale shaded with Shakespearean darkness." - Kirkus Reviews
"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
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James McGrath Morris spent five years working on Pulitzer: A Life in
Politics, Print, and Power. His previous book, The Rose Man of Sing
Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow
Journalism, was selected as a Washington Post Best Book of the
Year for 2004 and was optioned as a film and released as an audio book.
Morris is also the author of Jailhouse Journalism: The Fourth Estate Behind
Bars, which told the story of the extraordinary inmates in American prisons
who published their own newspapers.
Aside from books, his writing has appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines,
including, among others, The Washington Post, The New York Observer, The
Progressive, Civilization, and The Wilson Quarterly.
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