Pulitzer
Subtitle: A Life
Publisher: Wiley
Published: September 14, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780471332008
First sentence: At eighteen, Joseph Pulitzer, a penniless, gangling Hungarian emigrant recruited in Europe to fight in the Civil War, threw himself from the ship bringing him to the United States and swam ashore to collect the bounty he thought should come to him and not to his recruiter.