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The Magnificent Medills

America's Royal Family of Journalism during A Century of Turbulent Splendor
McKinney, Megan (Book - 2011)
The Magnificent Medills


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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.

Author: McKinney, Megan
Title: The magnificent Medills
America's royal family of journalism during a century of turbulent splendor
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: New York : - HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9780061782237, 0061782238
Language: English
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [422]-432) and index.
Fertile soil -- The patriarch -- Joseph Medill and the making of the president (1860) -- The great Chicago fire : Mayor Medill's personal phoenix -- The worst two she-devils in all of Chicago -- The Medill sisters' upward scramble -- Cissy comes of age -- The male cousins : heirs, pawns, victims, survivors -- Cissy : debutante countess -- Dynasty in jeopardy -- The countess and her admirers -- World War I and the creation of Colonel Robert R. McCormick -- The Jazz Age collides with The Chicago tribune -- The rise of the New York daily news : love, sex, money and murder -- The Cartier life -- The colonel of Chicagoland -- The editor wore emeralds : Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson's Washington herald -- Alicia Patterson, surrogate son -- The bittersweet revenge of Alicia's Newsday -- Hubris : FDR and the McCormick-Patterson axis -- The cousins in winter -- Epilogue : after the Medill century.
Statement of responsibility: Megan McKinney
Characteristics: [xiii], 448 p., [16] p. of plates :,ill., geneal. table ;,24 cm.
Author (Original Script): McKinney, Megan
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