Contents: 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

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Contents: 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

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