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xi, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-432) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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Medill, Joseph, 1823-1899.
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McCormick, Robert Rutherford, 1880-1955.
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Patterson, Eleanor Medill, 1881-1948.
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Patterson, Alicia, 1906-1963.
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Newspaper editors -- Biography.
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Publishers and publishing -- Biography.
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Journalists -- Biography.
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Newspaper publishing -- History -- 19th century.
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Newspaper publishing -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
9780061782237 |
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