The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955

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Northwestern University Press, 2003 M02 19 - 637 pages
This is the acclaimed biography of a giant of American journalism. As editor-publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Robert R. McCormick came to personify his city. Drawing on McCormick's personal papers and years of research, Richard Norton Smith has written the definitive life of the towering figure known as The Colonel.

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Contents

I Splendid Monsters 18231903
1
II Bulldog 19031918
87
III The Worlds Greatest Newspaperman 19191932
215
IV The Fox and the Crow 19331945
317
V Some Private Sort of Greatness 19451955
455
Acknowledgments
525
Notes
529
Bibliography
574
Index
580
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Richard Norton Smith is director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. His other books include Thomas E. Dewey and His Times (Simon and Schuster, 1982), a finalist for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize; and Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation (Mariner, 1997). Smith is also a regular participant in the roundtable discussions on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, so he has visibility on public television.

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