The amazing story behind the greatest newspapermen to ever live-Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst-lies primarily hidden with their reporters who were in the field. They risked their lives in Cuba as the country grappled for independence simply to "get the story" and write what were not always the most accurate accounts, but were definitely the best-anything to sell papers. Reporters like Harry Scovel, Stephen Crane, Cora Taylor, Richard Harding Davis, and James Creelman, among others, put themselves in danger every day just for the news.
The Yellow Kidsis an adventure story packed with engaging characters, witticisms, humor, and adversity, to reveal that the "yellow" found in journalism was often an extra ingredient applied by editors and publishers in New York.
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Joyce Milton is the author of Loss of Eden: A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, The Yellow Kids: Foreign Correspondents in the Heyday of Yellow Journalism, Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin, The Rosenberg File(with Ronald Radosh), and Vicki(with Anne Bardash).
Zusammenfassung
The amazing story behind the greatest newspapermen to ever liveJoseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearstlies primarily hidden with their reporters who were in the field. They risked their lives in Cuba as the country grappled for independence simply to "get the story" and write what were not always the most accurate accounts, but were definitely the bestanything to sell papers. Reporters like Harry Scovel, Stephen Crane, Cora Taylor, Richard Harding Davis, and James Creelman, among others, put themselves in danger every day just for the news.The Yellow Kids is an adventure story packed with engaging characters, witticisms, humor, and adversity, to reveal that the "yellow" found in journalism was often an extra ingredient applied by editors and publishers in New York.
Inhalt
- Cover
- Introduction
- I. When the World Was Young
- The Go-Ahead Spirit
- Tall Enough to Spit on the Sun
- A Climax to Recent Victories
- A Young Man Who Can Scan Every Ode of Horace
- II. Filibuster Thrills
- The Peanut Club
- With the Insurgents
- Cuba's Bloodless Battles
- James Creelman's Midnight Journey
- III. Our Intrepid Special Commissioners
- Shrapnel, Chivalry, and Sauce Mousseline
- A Tale of the Tenderloin
- The Sins That March to Music
- His Luck Had Run Out
- IV. Interlude, Summer 1897
- The Greco-Turkish War
- Klondike Adventures
- V. The Mystery of the Maine
- The Journalism That Acts
- Champagne and Ice Cream
- The Maine is Still Your Ship
- War Fever
- VI. On Secret Service
- At Havana's Gate
- It Has to Be Written Later . . .
- The Minstrel Boy to the War Has Gone
- VII. The Conquest of Santiago
- Guantánamo
- A Great Historical Expedition
- The Chute of Death
- VIII. Regulars Get No Glory
- Scovel Arrested
- Lord Tholepin Conquers Puerto Rico
- An Engineer by Training, a Newspaperman by Accident
- Postscript: Still Filibustering and Revoluting
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright