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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... thing to Aristocracy—Aristocracy in the best sense—that thecity, and perhapsthe country, hadseen.” Dorothy Schiff wasbornin 1903 into the veryapexofthis aristocracy. Her parents werethe prominent socialites Mortimer and Adele Neustadt ...
... 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. Ungrounded inhis heritage, embarrassed by it ...
... thing, implying thatJewishness ispurely a religious affairafter all. Frieda and Felix Warburg remained religiously and culturally Jewish. Their charities were primarily Jewish ones; their family home eventually became the Jewish Museum ...
... things” whomEvelyn Waugh satirized in Vile Bodies and alsoformed lifelong friendships with the Churchills and the Mountbattens. Max, despite his unprepossessing appearance,was successful with women.Lady DianaCooper oncedescribed him asa ...
... thing. And my mother was having none of it. It was the life of the mind that really defined her. She was searching for howto find it at first. That's why she was such a blotter with people like Max Beaverbrook, for instance ...
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 | |