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The godfather of tabloid : Generoso Pope Jr. and the National enquirer / Jack Vitek.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vitek, Jack.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pope, Generoso, 1927-1988.
- Pope, Generoso.
- National enquirer (New York, N.Y. : 1957)--History.
- National enquirer (New York, N.Y. : 1957).
- Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Newspaper publishing--United States--History--20th century.
- Newspaper publishing.
- Tabloid newspapers--United States--History.
- Tabloid newspapers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- They're impossible to miss at grocery stores and newsstands in America: colorful, heavily illustrated tabloid newspapers with headlines promising shocking, unlikely, and sometimes impossible stories within. Although ubiquitous now, the supermarket tabloid's origin can be traced to one man: Generoso Pope Jr. (1921--1988), an eccentric, domineering chain-smoker who died of a heart attack at the age of sixty-one. In The Godfather of Tabloid, Jack Vitek explores the life and career of Pope and the founding of the mother of all tabloids, the National Enquirer. Upon graduating from MIT, Pope work
- Contents:
- The man in perspective
- Family connections
- Kid Wheeler-Dealer
- Friends in low places
- From gore to groceries
- A second start
- Rocketing up
- Perfecting the formula
- Lantana 33464
- The million-dollar tree : ho! ho! ho!
- Washington garbage
- Manufacturing "truth"
- The peak of tabloid : Elvis
- Reporter as gladiator
- Star wars : Hollywood versus the Enquirer
- Wacky world news (tabloid II)
- Anger as satire
- Second peak (two gardeners' stories)
- Sudden death, ironically
- The Enquirer after Pope
- Pope in perspective.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-283) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613233325
- 9780813138619
- 0813138612
- 9781283233323
- 1283233320
- 9780813173047
- 0813173043
- OCLC:
- 753966326
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