×


 x 

Shopping cart
Hy B. Turner - When Giants Ruled - 9780823219445 - V9780823219445
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

When Giants Ruled

€ 50.29
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for When Giants Ruled Paperback. This work takes the reader behind the scenes of newspaper life in Park Row, New York. Series: Communications & Media Studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBJK; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 17. Weight in Grams: 445.

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.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Series
Communications & Media Studies
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823219445
SKU
V9780823219445
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Hy B. Turner
Hy B. Turner, the "Iron Man of Journalism" had a long career as a journalist in New York and elsewhere

Reviews for When Giants Ruled
"During the heyday of New York journalism, most of the city's newspapers
New York Sun, New York Herald, New-York Tribune, The New York Times, New York World, The Graphic, etc.
had offices in the same part of downtown New York, a part known as Park Row. In his readable account of the 90-year period from Benjamin Day's Sun in the 1830s to the tabloids of the 1920s, Turner looks at a roster of "giants" that includes names familiar to every student of journalism history: Day, the Bennetts, Greeley, Raymond, Dana, Pulitzer, Hearst, Ochs, Brisbane, Munsey, Patterson, MacFadden. Only the New York Post, The New York Daily News, and The New York Times still publish in New York, none on Park Row. The stories of these men are already well known, having been recited in most traditional histories of newspaper journalism
e.g., Frank Luther Mott's American Journalism (1945) and Edwin Emery and Henry Ladd Smith's The Press and America (1954). But Turner has included many details and stories that others understandably ignored, often relying on original sources, including the newspapers themselves. Endnotes are terse but useful. The bibliography is less useful than it might be, since it includes nearly every book written about newspaper journalism. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; professionals." -Choice "Those Giants ruled a collection of hotshots, sleazeballs, reformers and buccaneers who set the style for today's multi-media melees. Hy Turner has written a page-turner, a treat for anyone who cares about news, about history, about good stories. -The New York Times "When Giants Ruled makes the present-day reader nostalgic for the old broadcast newspapers..." -The Chicago Tribune

Goodreads reviews for When Giants Ruled


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!