James McGrath Morris – Pulitzer

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Adult Event

Start: 07/22/2010 7:00 pm

Like Alfred Nobel, Joseph Pulitzer is
better known today for the prize that bears his name than for his
contribution to history. Yet, in nineteenth-century industrial
America, while Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil,
Morgan the money, and Vanderbilt the railroads, Pulitzer ushered in
the modern mass media. As the first media baron to recognize the
vast social changes of the industrial revolution, he harnessed all
the converging elements of entertainment, technology, business, and demographics, and made the newspaper an
essential feature of urban life.

The course he followed led him to
battle Theodore Roosevelt who, when President, tried to send Pulitzer
to prison. Based on years of research and newly discovered documents,
Pulitzer is a classic, magisterial biography and a gripping portrait
of an American icon.