Bibliograph

The magnificent Medills, America's royal family of journalism during a century of turbulent splendor, Megan McKinney

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The magnificent Medills, America's royal family of journalism during a century of turbulent splendor, Megan McKinney

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-432) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The magnificent Medills

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

703206407

Responsibility statement

Megan McKinney

Sub title

America's royal family of journalism during a century of turbulent splendor

Table Of Contents

Preface -- 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

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