{"product_id":"pulitzer-a-life-in-politics-print-and-power-9780060798703","title":"Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn nineteenth-century industrial America, while Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil, Morgan the money, and Vanderbilt the railroads, Pulitzer ushered in the modern mass media. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames McGrath Morris chronicles the epic story of Joseph Pulitzer, a Jewish Hungarian immigrant who amassed great wealth and extraordinary power during his remarkable rise through American politics and journalism. Based on years of research and newly discovered documents, \u003cem\u003ePulitzer\u003c\/em\u003e is a classic, magisterial biography. It is a gripping portrait of the media baron who transformed American journalism into a medium of mass consumption and immense influence, and of the grueling legal battles he endured for freedom of the press that changed the landscape of American newspapers and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMorris, James McGrath:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJames McGrath Morris is the author of \u003cem\u003ePulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power\u003c\/em\u003e--which the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e deemed as one of the five best books on American moguls and \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e placed on its list of the ten best biographies of 2010--and \u003cem\u003eThe Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism\u003c\/em\u003e, a \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year. He is one of the founders and past presidents of Biographers International Organization (BIO) and makes his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50502936002834,"sku":"9780060798703","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d6b44c9e-c254-46cc-ae79-19baeb68c37a.jpg?v=1730779027","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pulitzer-a-life-in-politics-print-and-power-9780060798703","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}