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. |
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... appeared in the person of ayoung, ambitious Australian pressbaronRupert Murdoch, who was seekingapresence in the largest media market in America. Murdoch bought the New York Post and soon flipped the paper's editorialslantone hundred ...
... appeared, Dorothy wrote years later. “She gave uswhat wecalled 'Biblelessons.' The wonderful OldTestament stories,so fullofhuman interest, I loved. And Iwould gaze fascinated at the oftenterrifying pictures by Gustav Doré this teacher ...
... appearing together socially in New Yorkor Oyster Bay,no longer lived as husband and wife. Thedistance between them was moreobvious inParis, where Adele acquired a town house andtitled friends,while Morti livedat the Ritzand followed the ...
... appeared impervious toit.For hisson, Morti,things would be quite different.Mortihad been confirmed atTemple EmanuEl—Reform Jews at thattime eschewed the traditional bar mitzvah ceremony —but his Jewish education was spotty atbest ...
... appearance,was successful with women.Lady DianaCooper oncedescribed him asa “strange attractivegnome withanodour ofgenius abouthim.”He seemed to take special pleasure in seducing socialites, especially married ones. He helped out his ...
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 | |