Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - Tapa blanda

"An accomplished new biography. . . . "Pulitzer" is not its subject's first biography. But it is by far the best at explaining Pulitzer's St. Louis years."--"The St. Louis Post-Dispatch"

A major biographical success . . . . A thrilling toboggan-ride tour of history. . . . "Pulitzer" presents a flood of diary entries, statistics, edotirals, memoranda, and cables from its subject s many ocean voyages. In this cavalcade of American life and letters, the pages fly by. --"The San Francisco Chronicle""

An accomplished new biography. . . . "Pulitzer" is not its subject s first biography. But it is by far the best at explaining Pulitzer s St. Louis years. --"The St. Louis Post-Dispatch""

an attractive, superbly illustrated, and gracefully written account of his subject that might well catch the attention of the Pulitzer Prize trustees. --"The Washington Times""

James McGrath Morris has given us everything we could have asked for in his new biography of Joseph Pulitzer. Gracefully written and thoroughly researched, his biography is easily the best we have on this remarkable man who so profoundly influenced the worlds of politics and publishing. --David Nasaw, author of "Andrew Carnegie""

Before there was Murdoch, Berlusconi, Bloomberg, or Hearst, there was Joseph Pulitzer. This epic biography, with its remarkable new research and vivid, fast-paced writing, will delight anyone who wants to understand the tangled history of politics and the press in modern America. --Debby Applegate, author of "The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher""

James McGrath Morris masterfully demonstrates the power of biography to reveal our past and inform our future. Deeply researched and beautifully written, Morris has written the definitive "Pulitzer." --Kai Bird, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "American Prometheus""

An excellent book. . . . There have been other biographies of Pulitzer, most notably W.A. Swanberg s published in 1967, but James McGrath Morris s is the best. It is authoritative, lucid and fair to its complicated subject. --Jonathan Yardley, "The Washington Post""

Everyone knows the prize, fewer the man. Here s an antidote to the hand-wringing about the future of the newspaper, a full-scale, full-blooded biography of a penniless immigrant from Hungary who showed what newspapers could do. Seriously good history. --Harold Evans, "The Daily Beast""

Well-researched. . . . Reads like a novel. . . . Morris paints a vivid picture, portraying his subject as an ambitious, hotheaded, at times violent, often charitable man; a perfectionist, shrewd in matters of business yet cold in matters of the heart. --"The New York Times Book Review""