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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... editor of the New York Journal, hoping to deflect potentialantiSemitic envy ofrich Jewish bankers,pointed out that HenryFord earned more money ina single yearthan Schiff leftbehind after a lifetime. It wasa gracious gesture but a ...
... editor of the DailyExpressto keepit alive andensureits continuing support for the Conservative party. Between 1912 and 1915, Aitken quietly bought up shares in the Express, so that by 1916 he was effectively the sole owner. After World ...
... editor oftheNew York World. The Swopes had a lavish estate in Great Neck where they entertaineda crowd of sophisticated New Yorkers, including the Gershwin brothers, HarpoMarx, Alexander Woollcott, and Harold Ross. George Backerwas ...
... editors whose socially progressive political views helped shape an America that Hamilton would hardly have recognized. Firstamong theseinfluential editors was William Cullen Bryant, who was alsothe majority shareholder in thePost ...
Dorothy Schiff and the New York Post Marilyn Nissenson. editors of the paper. Godkin was a passionate and powerful ... editor, Edwin Gay, an economic historian whohad founded the Harvard Business School before trying his hand at ...
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 | |