The magnificent Medills : America's royal family of journalism during a century of turbulent splendor / Megan McKinney.
McKinney, Megan.
2011
PN4874.M484 M35 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
The magnificent Medills : America's royal family of journalism during a century of turbulent splendor / Megan McKinney.
Author
McKinney, Megan.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780061782237
0061782238
Publication Details
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xi, 448 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., geneal. table ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PN4874.M484 M35 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
070.5092/273 B
Summary
The riveting story of the country's first media dynasty, the Medills of Chicago, whose power and influence shaped the story of American and American journalism for four generations.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Preface
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.

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