The Lady Upstairs: Dorothy Schiff and the New York PostThe Lady Upstairs is the dramatic story of Dorothy Schiff---liberal activist, society stalwart, and the most dynamic female newspaper publisher of her day. From 1939 until 1976 she owned and guided the New York Post, the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the United States. Dolly, as she was called, made the Post one of the most dedicated supporters of New Deal liberalism in the country, while simultaneously maintaining its distinct personality as a chatty, parochial, New York tabloid. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 74
... John, who was destined from birth to become the head of Kuhn, Loeb. Overtheyears, Dollytold a storyof feeling leftout when the men andwomenat a dinner party separated afterthemeal. “The women,” she told one interviewer, “went tothe ...
... John, arrived in September 1904, Grandfather Jacob, who had taken perfunctory noteof Dorothy's birth, wrote to friends about hispleasure thatthe family name wouldnow be continued. Although fourof Frieda and Felix's children were boys ...
... John;her brother was herally and often her only companion. He was asicklyboy, vulnerable to bronchial infections, and her parents were terrified that this precious male heir might not survive. Normally the children shared a bedroom in ...
... John were old enough, theywere taken toPalm Beach every winter and to Europe every summer. Morti and Adele were avid members of what Frieda dismissively referred to as “the international set.” Morti kept horsesinLong Islandand Paris ...
... John's lives were privileged but isolated. They had few friends their own age. Dolly was educated at home until she was ten. “Endless teachers came in,”Dorothy told a reporter,“for piano, carpentry, French,German, andwhatnot—some of ...
Contents
FOUR Media Adventures | |
FIVE Teds Tenure | |
SIX Transition Time SEVEN | |
NINE Charges and Countercharges | |
TEN I Got Married | |
ELEVEN Party Politics | |
SEVENTEEN Changing the Guard | |
NINETEEN Planning for the Future | |
Cloudsonthe Horizon TWENTY The Riseofthe New Left TWENTYONE Blacks vs Jews | |
TWENTYTHREE The Young Turks | |
TWENTYFOUR The WorstofTimes | |
TWENTYFIVE The Man from | |
TWENTYSIX Thereafter Notes | |
Acknowledgments | |
TWELVE Protecting the LittleGuy | |
FOURTEEN Bringing Down the Titans | |
Copyright | |