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The magnificent Medills : America's royal family of journalism during a century of turbulent splendor / Megan McKinney.
Van Pelt Library PN4874.M484 M35 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKinney, Megan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medill, Joseph, 1823-1899.
- Medill, Joseph.
- Newspaper editors--United States--Biography.
- Newspaper editors.
- Newspaper publishing.
- History.
- United States.
- Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- McCormick, Robert R. (Robert Rutherford), 1880-1955.
- McCormick, Robert R.
- Patterson, Eleanor Medill, 1881-1948.
- Patterson, Eleanor Medill.
- Patterson, Alicia, 1906-1963.
- Patterson, Alicia.
- Newspaper publishing--United States--History--19th century.
- Newspaper publishing--United States--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii unnumbered pages, 448 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2011]
- Summary:
- The riveting story of the country's first media dynasty, the Medills of Chicago, whose power and influence shaped the story of American and American journalism for four generations.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [422]-432) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780061782237
- 0061782238
- OCLC:
- 703206407
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