An edition of The magnificent Medills
(2011)
The magnificent Medills
America's royal family of journalism during a century of turbulent splendor
1st ed.
by Megan McKinney
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Journalists, Newspaper publishing, Publishers and publishing, History, Newspaper editors, Biography, Newspapers, Patterson, eleanor medill, 1881-1948, Publishers and publishing, united states, Journalists, biography, Journalists, united states, Mccormick, robert rutherford, 1880-1955People
Robert Rutherford McCormick (1880-1955), Eleanor Medill Patterson (1881-1948), Joseph Medill (1823-1899), Alicia Patterson (1906-1963)Places
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20th century, 19th centuryShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-432) and index.
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