a true tale of life, murder, and redemption in the age of yellow journalism /
First Statement of Responsibility
James McGrath Morris
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xvi, 437 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
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illustrations, map ;
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24 cm
SERIES
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Communications and media studies ;
Volume Designation
no. 8
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-429) and index
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Despotic, tragic, and yet mesmerizing, newspaper editor Charles E. Chapin ruled the evening press in that bygone era when it was the CNN of the pre-electronic world of journalism. For two decades a century ago, Chapin held dominion over New York's wild assortment of tabloids and broadsheets until he murdered his wife in her sleep and his fiefdom was reduced to that of tending roses in one of the nation's most notorious prisons." "The Rose Man of Sing Sing traces the rise and fall of this iconic newspaperman, a life so extraordinary that today journalists still recount the myths it generated."--Jacket