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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... daily newspaper in the United States. During her tenure, the Post was an important voice of American liberalism and at the same time a chatty, parochial New York tabloid. Dorothy was a very visible presence inthe local and ...
... Daily News,founded and editedNewsday, butshe wasdependent on her husband's financial backing andoften thwartedby his opposition to her political views. Only Dorothy Schiff acquired, owned, and operated her paper without other ...
... daily newspapers. Dorothy Schiff was patronized by the other publishers—all of them male—but she frequently outsmarted them, notablyduring the fractious strike/lockout thatshutdown the papers between November 1962and March 1963. By the ...
... daily lives. Morti remembered being broughtin to see his mother at teatime. Neither of the Hall children remembers many intimate moments with her when theywere youngsters. Dollywasproud of the fact thatshe took young Morti and Adele ...
... Daily Express, and his traveling partner andboss wasthe mercurial British press lord, Max Beaverbrook. Dorothy shared Beaverbrook's table and his cabin for the restof the trip. Beaverbrook was born Max Aitken, theson of aPresbyterian ...
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 | |