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First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
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HarperCollins Publishers
Published:
1989
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
14194874887
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Very good in Very good jacket. xix, [1], 412 pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Price-clipped. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. Joyce Milton is the author of "Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin" and several other books. She is also the coauthor of "The Rosenberg File." She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Substantial index entries on Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. Derived from a Kirkus review: This portrait of yellow journalists in the latter half of the 1890's is a appropriate to the subject. Milton follows the competition between N.Y.C. 's biggest publishers of yellow journalism--the aggressive but socially inept William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. As the two publishers bid for writers, their reporters are out at the borders of America's new-found sphere of influence, not just writing but making the news. Milton describes the work of the yellow journalists in Cuba, where they ride on the boats of arms smugglers until their publishers buy their own "filibuster" boats. Between dispatches about the politics behind the Cuban war of-independence, writers also send home fantastic stories of life in the tropics and the locals strange war tactics, such as crop sabotage committed with kerosene-soaked snakes. Milton introduces the journalists--including engineer-turned-reporter Sylvester Scovel and the seedy "literary genius" Stephen Crane--with biographical sketches before going on to tell of their adventures in the battlefields of Greece or on the road to Alaskan gold mines. She also covers the writers' decisions of when to withhold critical reports of the US army and inept generals, as well as the reporters' simultaneous work of criticizing U.S. military policy and collecting military intelligence on a volunteer basis. Milton does not judge the work of the yellow journalists but offers a lively description of publishers and correspondents that presents the glamor of newspaper work.
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Writing of press baron James Gordon Bennett, author Joyce Milton tells the following tale:
"Individuals who became the targets of Bennett's slashing wit sometimes resorted to physical retaliation. In 1836, James Watson Webb, owner of the rival 'Courier & Enquirer,' became so outraged over a 'Herald' story accusing him of profiting from the stocks he touted in his editorial columns that he attacked Bennett on the street. Striking Bennett from behind with his cane and knocking him to the ground, Webb then held his victim's jaws open and spat down his throat. Bennett, unimpressed, resumed his attacks on Webb as soon as he was well enough to return to the office. In 1850, John Graham, a defeated candidate for district attorney whose election the 'Herald' had opposed, accosted Bennett on Broadway, and while Mrs. Bennett looked on, he and his two brothers flailed away at the publisher with horsewhips. In 1852, a black-powder bomb marked "For Mr. Bennett only" was delivered to the 'Herald's' offices. Henrietta Bennett eventually became so unnerved by these episodes that she moved to France, taking her children with her."
Those who want to see just how wild and woolly journalism used to get should read Ms. Milton's book. Her tale of Bennett is typical. 'The Yellow Kids' is chock full of just such stuff as that and all of it is true. Impeccably sourced and documented, competently written, fun to read, 'The Yellow Kids' is highly recommended. Great stuff!