Newsmaker Roy W. Howard : the mastermind behind the Scripps-Howard news empire from the Gilded Age to the Atomic Age /
In the first half of the 20th century, the golden age of newspapers, the colorful, charismatic, and controversial Roy W. Howard reigned as the most famous publisher, editor and journalist of his time. Named one of "The 29 Men Who 'Rule' America" on the front page of the New York...
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2016
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: 1883-1922. Delivering the news, 1883-1908 ; The united press, "I do not believe in monopolies," 1908 ; Roy and Peg, Paris and London, 1909 ; "People are more interesting than the things they are doing. Dramatize them!" ; "No tradition of colorless news," 1914 ; "A knock-out!", 1912-1916 ; Friends and colleagues ; The succession, part I, 1917-1918 ; A reversal of fortunes, South America, 1918 ; The worst day, "The false armistice," November 7, 1918 ; The succession, part II, 1919-1921
- Part II: 1922-1941. Scripps-Howard! ; Changing times ; A circus in Denver, Roy Howard vs. a rogue, 1920-1931 ; "I'll take Manhattan", the Telegram, 1927-1931 ; On top of the World, 1931 ; The columnists ; "Newspapermen meet such interesting people", the American Newspaper Guild, 1933-1941
- Part III: 1928-1945. The presidents, Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928-1933 ; The mayors, Jimmy Walker and Fiorello La Guardia ; Our man in Asia, 1933 ; Debriefing the president, 1933 ; Adolf Hitler, "Germany's latest all-highest," 1936 ; Josef Stalin, the next "all-highest," 1936 ; FDR, "This dictatorship ... is all bull-s-t," 1936-1939 ; Political hotspots of Europe, 1939 ; Expanding the Asian connection ; "Every single one of them, with one exception, has come to the nation's capital to serve," FDR, 1940-1945 ; The pacific, 1945
- Part IV: 1946-1964. The aftermath, 1946-1948 ; On the move, 1950-1951 ; Not quite retired, 1952-1954 ; Still not retired, 1955-1959 ; A long goodbye, 1960-1963 ; The final -30-, 1964.
