{"product_id":"the-magnificent-medills-americas-royal-family-of-journalism-during-a-century-of-turbulent-splendor-isbn-9780061782237","title":"The Magnificent Medills: America's Royal Family of Journalism During a Century of Turbulent Splendor","description":"\"A knock-out dynastic history about the world of journalism. In \u003cem\u003eThe Magnificent Medills \u003c\/em\u003ewe learn how a single family forever changed Chicago and America. It's impossible to understand today's modern media world without reading this brilliant book. Highly recommended!\" —Douglas Brinkley, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the vein of Alan Brinkley's \u003cem\u003eThe Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century\u003c\/em\u003e and Katharine Graham's \u003cem\u003ePersonal History \u003c\/em\u003ecomes the first comprehensive chronicle of the Medill family—a riveting true story of the country’s first media dynasty whose power and influence shaped the story of America for four generations.\u003cbr\u003e | \u003cp\u003eThe riveting story of the country’s first media dynasty, the Medills of Chicago, whose power and influence shaped the story of America and American journalism for four generations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen thirty-two-year-old former lawyer Joseph Medill bought a controlling stake in the bankrupt \u003cem\u003eChicago Daily Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e in 1855, he had no way of foreseeing the unparalleled influence he and his progeny would have on the world of journalism and on American society at large.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedill personally influenced the political tide that transformed America during the midnineteenth century by fostering the Republican Party, engineering the election of Abraham Lincoln and serving as a catalyst for the outbreak of the Civil War. The dynasty he established, filled with colorful characters, went on to take American journalism by storm. His grandson, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, personified Chicago, as well as its great newspaper, the \u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e, throughout much of the twentieth century. Robert’s cousin, Joseph Medill Patterson, started the \u003cem\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/em\u003e, and Joe’s sister, Cissy Patterson, was the innovative editor of the \u003cem\u003eWashington Times-Herald\u003c\/em\u003e. In the fourth generation, Alicia Patterson founded Long Island’s \u003cem\u003eNewsday\u003c\/em\u003e, the most stunning journalistic accomplishment of post–World War II America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinter’s ink raged in the veins of the Medills, the McCormicks and the Pattersons throughout a century, and their legacy prevailed for another five decades—always in the forefront of events, shaping the intellectual and social pulse of America. At the same time, the dark side of the intellectual stardom driving the dynasty was a destructive compulsion that left clan members crippled by their personal demons of chronic depression, alcoholism, drug abuse and even madness and suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRife with authentic conversations and riveting quotes, \u003cem\u003eThe Magnificent Medills\u003c\/em\u003e is the premiere cultural history of America’s first media empire. This dynamic family and their brilliance, eccentricities and ultimate self-destruction are explored in a sweeping narrative that interweaves the family’s personal activities and public achievements against a larger historical background. Authoritative, compelling and thoroughly engaging, \u003cem\u003eThe Magnificent Medills\u003c\/em\u003e brings the pages of history that the Medills wrote vividly to life.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Megan McKinney has written a knock-out dynastic history about the world of journalism. In \u003ci\u003eThe Magnificent Medills\u003c\/i\u003e we learn how a single family forever changed Chicago and America. It’s impossible to understand today’s modern media world without reading this brilliant book. Highly recommended!” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouglas Brinkley, author of The Quiet World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Megan McKinney’s wonderfully researched, thoroughly engrossing, \u003ci\u003eThe Magnificent Medills\u003c\/i\u003e, reveals Chicago’s McCormick-Patterson family in all its dazzling brilliance and delicious eccentricity.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Garrard Lowe, author of Lost Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Compulsively readable.  . . . With its backdrop of wealth and power, The Magnificent Medills reads almost like a rich historical novel. It just happens to be true.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shifting smoothly from the life of one Medill, Patterson or McCormick to another, in the end she achieves a clear and comprehensive family biography, with all its complex interconnections.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ink, booze and eccentricity flow through a newspaper dynasty’s veins in this lively, gossipy clan bio. . . . Like her subjects, McKinney blends canny fact-finding, well-paced narrative and colorful detail into a compulsively readable confection.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It is their brilliance in publishing newspapers when newspapers really mattered, combined with lives full of fault lines, that truly fascinates. . . . A solid account of the life and times of a family that was indeed magnficent.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This portrait of a storied newspaper dynasty packs a powerful punch.  . . . The saga is not only a compulsively readable collective biography but also an overview of the rapid evolution of the American newspaper industry during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.  . . . This timely look backwards delivers the scoop on the zenith of print journalism.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This portrait of a storied newspaper dynasty packs a powerful punch.  . . . 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Deftly tell[ing] the tale of one of America’s first families of business.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilanthropy Magazine Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888526586085,"sku":"NP9780061782237","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061782237.jpg?v=1730229276","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-magnificent-medills-americas-royal-family-of-journalism-during-a-century-of-turbulent-splendor-isbn-9780061782237","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}