The magnificent Medills : America's royal family of journalism during a century of turbulent splendor /: America's royal family of journalism during a century of turbulent splendor. (©2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Megan McKinney.
• Other Names: McKinney, Megan
• 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 -- Epilogue : after the Medill century.
• Publisher Details: New York : HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource ([xiii], 448 pages, [16] pages of plates), illustrations, genealogical table
• Subjects: 070.5092/273; Newspaper editors -- United States -- Biography; Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Biography; Journalists -- United States -- Biography; Newspaper publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Newspaper publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Journalists; Newspaper editors; Newspaper publishing; Publishers and publishing; United States; Electronic books; Biography; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780062097750
• Related ISBNs: 006209775X; 9780061782237; 0061782238
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-432) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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