Newspaper Titan, The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson

pp. xv, (5), 695, b/w illustrations, “From the author of Hostage to Fortune; The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy (“Superb” –Michael Beschloss; “Remarkable” –Arthur Schlesinger), the galvanizing story of Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson, celebrated debutante and socialite, scion of the Chicago Tribune empire, and the twentieth century’s first woman editor in chief and publisher of a major metropolitan daily newspaper, the Washington Times-Herald.”