When Giants Ruled
The Story of Park Row, NY's Great Newspaper Street
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 re…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8232-1944-5
- EAN: 9780823219445
- Produktnummer: 9565652
- Verlag: Fordham University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 268 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.7 cm 440 g
- Abbildungen: black & white illustrations
- Gewicht: 440
Über den Autor
Hy B. Turner, the Iron Man of Journalism had a long career as a journalist in New York and elsewhere
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