The magnificent Medills
Subtitle: America's royal family of journalism during a century of turbulent splendor
By: Megan McKinney
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780061782237
Subjects: Journalists; Newspaper publishing; Publishers and publishing; History; Newspaper editors; Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-432) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Fertile soil; title: The patriarch; title: Joseph Medill and the making of the president 1860; title: The great Chicago fire : Mayor Medill's personal phoenix; title: The worst two she-devils in all of Chicago; title: The Medill sisters' upward scramble; title: Cissy comes of age; title: The male cousins : heirs, pawns, victims, survivors; title: Cissy : debutante countess; title: Dynasty in jeopardy; title: The countess and her admirers; title: World War I and the creation of Colonel Robert R. McCormick; title: The Jazz Age collides with The Chicago tribune; title: The rise of the New York daily news : love, sex, money and murder; title: The Cartier life; title: The colonel of Chicagoland; title: The editor wore emeralds : Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson's Washington herald; title: Alicia Patterson, surrogate son; title: The bittersweet revenge of Alicia's Newsday; title: Hubris : FDR and the McCormick-Patterson axis; title: The cousins in winter; title: Epilogue: after the Medill century.