The lion and the journalist
Subtitle: the unlikely friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop
By: Chip Bishop
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780762777549
Subjects: Politics and government; Friends and associates; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State; Presidents; Newspaper editors; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century; Police administration; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers; Press and politics; History; HISTORY / Latin America / Central America; Biography; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Description: "Theodore Roosevelt, accidental president, and Joseph Bishop, newspaper editor, met when the future Rough Rider was police commissioner of New York City. Bishop hitched his wagon to the politician's star and used his editorial pages in New York papers to buttress Roosevelt's initiatives first as police commissioner, then as governor and president. Here is a new and important look at one of America's most important leaders and the man who helped him achieve his goals. The Lion and the Journalist is a remarkable story of mutual loyalty and dedication that ranges from police corruption on the streets of New York, through days of boldness and courage in the White House and beyond, to ambition and hardship in the jungles of Panama"--

"Theodore Roosevelt, accidental president, and Joseph Bishop, newspaper editor, met when the future Rough Rider was police commissioner of New York City. Bishop hitched his wagon to the politician's star and used his editorial pages in various New York papers to buttress Roosevelt's initiatives first as police commissioner, then as governor and president. Here is a new and important look at one of our nation's most important leaders and the man who helped him achieve his goals. It is a remarkable story of mutual loyalty and dedication that ranges from police corruption on the streets of New York, through days of boldness and courage in the White House, to ambition and hardship in the jungles of Panama and beyond"--