When Giants Ruled: The Story of Park Row, NY's Great Newspaper Street

Hy B. Turner

Published by Fordham University Press 1999

When Giants Ruled

The Story of Park Row, NY's Great Newspaper Street

Hy B. Turner

In the series Communications and Media Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823295661

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When Giants Ruled takes the reader behind the scenes of a century of newspaper life. It relates how Benjamin Day, a job printer desperate for more money, started The Sun and inadvertently established the first successful daily for the masses. His main rival was James Gordon Bennett the Elder, whose innovations and success culminated in the most unusual war in journalism: an attempt by rival publishers to halt his efforts to revolutionize the press and to exterminate his Herald.

During the Civil War, with only Lincoln excluded, no person had greater sway upon the nation’s thinking than Horace Greeley. Venom spewed between Bennett and Greeley reached unprecedented heights until Charles Anderson Dana became overlord of Park Row and tangled with the crusading Joseph Pulitzer. Bennett’s eccentric son did not wait for news to happen; he made it. The devastating circulation war between Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst reached a climax with the Spanish- American War. Hearst’s sensationalism remained foremost with the masses until Joseph Patterson produced the most successful tabloid of the twentieth century. An epilogue connects the Park Row era to today’s New York press.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
1. Birth of The Sun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The "Vampire" Editor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
3. The Reformer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
4. The "Little Villain" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
5. Lincoln and the Giants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
6. Death Times Three Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
7. The "Assassin" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
8. Wonder of The World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
9. "Yellow Journalist" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
10. Little Man in the Big City Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
11. Politics and the President Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
12. News at Any Price Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
13. The "Grave Digger" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
14. The "Genius" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
15. The Passing of Park Row Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
EPILOGUE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 268

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Published: December 6, 2021
ISBN: 9780823295661