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The Murder of the Century
The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City And Sparked the Tabloid Wars
Book Summary
Traces the 1897 murder that initiated a tabloid war between media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, chronicling the efforts of an anxious police officer, a cub reporter, and an eccentric professor to solve the crime.
This book is about:
- New York (N.Y.),
- Tabloid newspapers,
- Crimes of passion,
- New York,
- New York (State),
- Nack, Augusta,
- 19th century,
- History,
- Case studies,
- Murder
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How A New York 'Murder' Sparked The Tabloid Wars
June 25, 2011 When a body washed up on the shores of New York's East River in 1897, the race to solve the murder sparked one of the country's first great newspaper wars. Weekend Edition's literary detective Paul Collins tracks that war's progress in his new book, The Murder of the Century.
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