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The Rose Man of Sing Sing - A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism (Hardcover, New)
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The Rose Man of Sing Sing - A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism (Hardcover, New)
Series: Communications and Media Studies
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Today, seventy-three years after his death, journalists still tell
tales of Charles E. Chapin. As city editor of Pulitzer's New York
Evening World , Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners
newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlessly-and kept his paper
in the center ring of the circus of big-city journalism. From the
Harry K. Thaw trial to the sinking of the Titanic , Chapin set the
pace for the evening press, the CNN of the pre-electronic world of
journalism. In 1918, at the pinnacle of fame, Chapin's world
collapsed. Facing financial ruin, sunk in depression, he decided to
kill himself and his beloved wife Nellie. On a quiet September
morning, he took not his own life, but Nellie's, shooting her as
she slept. After his trial-and one hell of a story for the World's
competitors-he was sentenced to life in the infamous Sing Sing
Prison in Ossining, New York. In this story of an extraordinary
life set in the most thrilling epoch of American journalism, James
McGrath Morris tracks Chapin's rise from legendary Chicago street
reporter to celebrity powerbroker in media-mad New York. His was a
human tragedy played out in the sensational stories of tabloids and
broadsheets. But it's also an epic of redemption: in prison, Chapin
started a newspaper to fight for prisoner rights, wrote a
best-selling autobiography, had two long-distance love affairs, and
tapped his prodigious talents to transform barren prison plots into
world-famous rose gardens before dying peacefully in his cell in
1930. The first portrait of one of the founding figures of modern
American journalism, and a vibrant chronicle of the cutthroat
culture of scoops and scandals, The Rose Man of Sing Sing is also a
hidden history of New York at its most colorful and passionate.
James McGrath Morris is a former journalist, author of Jailhouse
Journalism: The Fourth Estate Behind Bars , and a historian. He
lives in Falls Church, Virginia, and teaches at West Springfield
High School.
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