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War of words : a true tale of newsprint and murder / Simon Read.
Van Pelt Library F869.S353 D427 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Read, Simon, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mayors.
- Newspaper editors.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--History--19th century.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- De Young, Charles, 1845-1880.
- De Young, Charles.
- Kalloch, Isaac, 1831-1887.
- Kalloch, Isaac.
- Newspaper editors--California--San Francisco--Biography.
- Mayors--California--San Francisco--Biography.
- San Francisco chronicle.
- California--San Francisco.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 309 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Union Square Press/Sterling Pub. Co., [2009]
- Summary:
- When a gun-toting newspaper publisher collided with a hellfire preacher whose lust for the ladies equaled his craving to be mayor, sparks and bullets flew-with the citizens of San Francisco caught in the crossfire.
- In the inaugural issue of the paper that was to become the San Francisco Chronicle, cofounder Charles de Young wrote:
- A new era has commenced in the history of the Chronicle, which today enters upon a higher and wider sphere. We propose to publish what will prove a novelty in San Francisco journalism-a bold, bright, fearless and truly independent paper. We shall be independent in all things, neutral in nothing. We shall assail with all our power, and with every legitimate weapon, all principles, measures, doctrines, parties and cliques that we regard as exercising an influence hostile to the best interests of society. But we propose to attack no individual unnecessarily.
- The sincerity in that last sentence would prove questionable.
- Contents:
- 1 Young Blood 22
- 2 Son of a Preacher Man 42
- 3 A Tarnished Halo 51
- 4 In Judgment 62
- 5 Violence and Villainy 78
- 6 Beatings and Litigation 92
- 7 Under Fire 105
- 8 The Coming Man 126
- 9 Fire and Politics 141
- 10 A War of Words 159
- 11 The Spark of Manhood 177
- 12 A Vote of Sympathy 191
- 13 Final Edition 208
- 14 Bad Business 227
- 15 Impeachment and Trial 242.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781402756122
- 1402756127
- OCLC:
- 244063870
- Publisher Number:
- 99935364695
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