Pulitzer

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. xiv, [2], 462, [2] pages. Front endpaper has Key to the World Code. Illustrations. Author's Note. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ is price-clipped. DJ has wear, tears, soiling, chips, and taped repair. Of particular interest might be the discussion under Part VI, Number 8 entitled "Roosevelt vs. Pulitzer". William Andrew Swanberg (November 23, 1907 in St. Paul, Minnesota ? September 17, 1992 in Southbury, Connecticut) was an American biographer. He may be known best for Citizen Hearst, a biography of William Randolph Hearst, which was recommended by the Pulitzer Prize board in 1962 but overturned by the trustees. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his 1972 biography of Henry Luce, and the National Book Award in 1977 for his 1976 biography of Norman Thomas. Joseph John Pulitzer ( April 10, 1847 ? October 29, 1911) was a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York. In the 1890s the fierce competition between his World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal caused both to develop the techniques of yellow journalism, which won over readers with sensationalism, sex, crime and graphic horrors. The wide appeal reached a million copies a day and opened the way to mass-circulation newspapers that depended on advertising revenue and appealed to readers with multiple forms of news, gossip, entertainment and advertising. Today, his name is best known for the Pulitzer Prizes, which were established in 1917 as a result of his endowment to Columbia University. The prizes are given annually to recognize and reward excellence in American journalism, photography, literature, history, poetry, music and drama. Pulitzer founded the Columbia School of Journalism; it opened in 1912.