Pulitzer

<p>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. </p><p>James McGrath Morris chronicles the epic story of Joseph Pulitzer a Jewish Hungarian immigrant who amassed great wealth and extraordinary power during his remarkable rise through American politics and journalism. Based on years of research and newly discovered documents <em>Pulitzer</em> is a classic magisterial biography. It is a gripping portrait of the media baron who transformed American journalism into a medium of mass consumption and immense influence and of the grueling legal battles he endured for freedom of the press that changed the landscape of American newspapers and politics.</p>