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When Giants Ruled - The Story of Park Row, NY's Great Newspaper Street (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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When Giants Ruled - The Story of Park Row, NY's Great Newspaper Street (Hardcover, 1st ed)
Series: Communications and Media Studies
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When Giants Ruled takes the reader behind the scenes of a century
of newspaper life. It relates how Benjamin Day, a job printer
desperate for more money, started The Sun and inadvertently
established the first successful daily for the masses. His main
rival was James Gordon Bennett the Elder, whose innovations and
success culminated in the most unusual war in journalism: an
attempt by rival publishers to halt his efforts to revolutionize
the press and to exterminate his Herald. During the Civil War, with
only Lincoln excluded, no person had greater sway upon the nation's
thinking than Horace Greeley. Venom spewed between Bennett and
Greeley reached unprecedented heights until Charles Anderson Dana
became overlord of Park Row and tangled with the crusading Joseph
Pulitzer. Bennett's eccentric son did not wait for news to happen;
he made it. The devastating circulation war between Pulitzer and
William Randolph Hearst reached a climax with the Spanish- American
War. Hearst's sensationalism remained foremost with the masses
until Joseph Patterson produced the most successful tabloid of the
twentieth century. An epilogue connects the Park Row era to today's
New York press.
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