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Few American newspapers, perhaps none, have matched the New York Herald Tribune in the crispness of its writing and editing, the bite of its commentators, the range of its coverage and the clarity of its typography. The “Trib”, as it was affectionately called, raised newspapering to an art form. It had an influence and importance out of all proportion to its circulation. During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln went to great lengths to retain the support of its co-founder, Horace Greeley. President Eisenhower felt it was such an important institution and Republican organ that he helped broker its sale to its last owner, multimillionaire John Hay Whitney. The Trib’s spectacularly distingui...
Kluger's association with the Tribune makes him the natural historian of the paper. J. Anthony Lukas of the Boston Globe calls The Paper probably the best book ever written about an American newspaper . . . a brilliant piece of social history. 24 pages of black-and-white photos.
This volume concentrates on the history of the acclaimed `New York Herald-Tribune' (1924 - 1966) and its two forerunners - the `New York Herald' (1835 - 1924) and the `New York Tribune' (1841 - 1924), and the Pulitzer Prizes won by them. In addition, a look is also given to the `International Herald-Tribune', the newspaper's European Edition, published in Paris. Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, EdD, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany
This first volume of Mr. Maher's four-volume work indexes 38,000 death notices and 14,000 marriage notices. The extensive notices refer to people up and down the East Coast as well as to midwesterners and persons from as far west as the State of California.