Lusty Scripps - The Life Of E.W.Scripps (1854-1926)
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Lusty Scripps - The Life Of E.W.Scripps (1854-1926)

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Lusty Scripps - The Life Of E.W.Scripps (1854-1926)

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Publisher
Spencer Press
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781473383814
Print ISBN
9781406732269

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedicated
  5. Foreword
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Journalistic Forbears
  9. The Sensitive Child
  10. “Laziest Boy in the County”
  11. Quitting Jobs
  12. King Up his First Thousand, and Other Thousands
  13. E. W. Becomes an Editor
  14. Early Struggles of the “News”
  15. A Runaway Staff
  16. The Chapter on Sex
  17. Brook Street Philosophy
  18. Contrast
  19. Tips and the Roman Dream
  20. How to Pick an Editor
  21. Starting the “Cleveland Penny Press”
  22. Success on the Thousand and in a Year
  23. Perils of a Fighting Editor
  24. The News—All the News
  25. Picking Editorial Talent: Reporter Perkins
  26. The Chisholm Incident
  27. How to Succeed While Loafing
  28. Getting Travel, Culture, and Reform
  29. E. W. Buys a “Prospect Hole”
  30. The Mclean and the Tafts for “Opposition”
  31. A Staff of Working Christians
  32. Christian Editors and a Boy Preacher
  33. Christian Editors and a Corrupt Political Ring
  34. Why E. W. Loved the “Cincinnati Post”
  35. Milton A. Mcrae of the Scripps-Mcrae Papers
  36. Lemuel T. Atwood Faithful Unto Death
  37. Battling Drink and Women
  38. St. Louis Again and Those Nice Not-Nice Girls
  39. And so They were Married
  40. Miramar!
  41. The First Western Paper: A Lapse
  42. The Lure of Real Estate
  43. A Narrow Escape from Brother James
  44. Years of Expansion
  45. Quitting the Drink
  46. James Contests George’s Will and E. W. Wins as Usual
  47. Founding the United Press
  48. Ellen Scripps
  49. Scripps’ Ideas on Education
  50. What to do With Money
  51. “Disquistions”
  52. Starting your Boy at the Top
  53. The Dream of Power Comes True
  54. Deciding who Shall be President
  55. Wilson: The War-Minded
  56. Helping to Fight the War
  57. Another Working Christian
  58. Escaping from the “Flu”
  59. Life Aboard the “Kemah”
  60. Sentiment and Will Dangling
  61. Was Scripps a Radical?
  62. Long-Distance Management
  63. Grooming his Shadow
  64. Father and Son Disagree
  65. One Boat Leads to Another—The Yacht “Ohio”
  66. Life on the “Ohio”
  67. What to do With Excalibur
  68. Playing Dead and Dying
  69. Appendix