Acknowledgments
Introduction: Joseph Pulitzer and his "Indegoddampendent" world
The fighting immigrant
Upright, spirited, and dangerous
Survives fire and marries
Buys St. Louis Post-Dispatch
President Garfield assassinated
Jesse James "Shot like a dog"
Pulitzer takes over the world
Puts a democrat in the White House
Saves Statue of Liberty
Haymarket Square massacre
Nellie Bly goes crazy
Tries to save his sight
"An instrument of justice, a terror to crime"
Nellie Bly races around the world
Running the world by remote control
Pulitzer's "Satanic journalism"
Prevents war between the United States and Britain
Fighting crime and William Randolph Hearst
War fever
Americans at war in Cuba
For the Boers, against the British
"Accuracy! Accuracy!! Accuracy!!!"
President McKinley assassinated
"Find a man who gets drunk and hire him"
Euphemisms for abortion
Breaking in Frank Cobb
Unmasking corrupt insurance companies
"I liked the way he swore"
Protesting jingo agitation
Secret double life of Rockefeller's father
Roosevelt tries to send Pulitzer to prison
"The big man of all American newspapers"
Roosevelt seeks revenge
Victory! The last days
The aftermath
Notes
Bibliography
Index.