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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... The Fabulous Fifties NINE . Charges and Countercharges TEN . “I Got Married!” Part III: The Liberal Agenda ELEVEN . Party Politics TWELVE . Protecting the LittleGuy THIRTEEN . Civil Rights and Wrongs FOURTEEN . Bringing Down.
... liberal interpretation of those events: itchampioned American liberalism duringthe periodwhen liberalism mattered. Liberalism assumed that human nature was perfectible, that underdogs could rise.
... liberal optimism that characterized its editorial point of view also began toflag. Profound social discontent fostered byracial tensions and the war in Vietnam posed conundrums to which liberals like Dorothy and her editors.
... liberal,Eliot encouraged Jewish enrollment at Harvard. He was dismayed by the reports of continuing antiSemitism in Eastern Europe, andhe became apolitical Zionist, tryingvainly toconvinceSchiff of the importanceofaJewish state ...
... liberal, socially committed thirties. In later years, both Dorothy andGeorge implied that although they certainly hadbecome a couple, it wasn't clear to eitherof them thatthey were passionatelyin love. During theircourtship, for example ...
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 | |