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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... wrote, “These GermanJewish families were more than a collective American success story ... they werealso the closest thing to Aristocracy—Aristocracy in the best sense—that thecity, and perhapsthe country, hadseen.” Dorothy Schiff ...
... wrote. “ButMorti had a sweet dispositionand was thekindest boy,and man,inthe world. Ithink if he hadbeen brought up according to modern methods, which seek tofind the reasons for children's behavior and to prevent conflicts, his whole ...
... wrote to friends about hispleasure thatthe family name wouldnow be continued. Although fourof Frieda and Felix's children were boys, they were Warburgs—which was not the same. DorothyandJohn, like most children of their social class ...
... wrote,“I supposewhile there, Ilearned the usualschool subjects, but chiefly Iremember learning how to knit socks, helmets, sweaters, and wristletsin grey or khaki wool for 'our boys.'” (This was partof the civilianeffort to support ...
... wrote toa Jewish charitable agency inNew York forhelp. The agency's response wasto offer herchildren places inan orphanage. Themother was disconsolate. WhenJacob Schiff heard the story, hesent money to resettle her intactfamily back ...
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 | |