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Hy B. Turner - When Giants Ruled - 9780823219438 - V9780823219438
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When Giants Ruled

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Description for When Giants Ruled Hardback. This work takes the reader behind the scenes of newspaper life in Park Row, New York. Series: Communications & Media Studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBJK; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 22. Weight in Grams: 596.

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. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
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
9780823219438
SKU
V9780823219438
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

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 ... Read more

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