PULITZER: A LIFE IN POLITICS, PRINT, AND POWER
Book ID/图书代码： 11502009B30984
English Summary/英文概要： This epic biography, with its remarkable new research and vivid, fast-paced writing, will delight anyone who wants to understand the tangled history of politics and the press in modern America.” —Debby Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
“James McGrath Morris has given us everything we could have asked for in his new biography of Joseph Pulitzer. Gracefully written and thoroughly researched, his biography is easily the best we have on this remarkable man who so profoundly influenced the worlds of politics and publishing.” — David Nasaw, author of Andrew Carnegie
Pulitzer is James McGrath Morris’s definitive biography of the Jewish Hungarian immigrant who created the modern American mass media—the first comprehensive biography of this remarkable historical icon in more than 40 years.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 根據普立茲遺願設立「普立茲獎」--新聞界的最高榮譽
地位如同19世紀，鋼鐵龍頭卡內基、石油業大亨洛克菲勒、金融鉅子摩根
開創現代大眾媒體
影響新聞業的關鍵人物
美國「普立茲新聞獎」猶如新聞界諾貝爾，被全球新聞工作者視為職業生涯的最高榮譽。是1917年哥倫比亞大學根據美國報業巨頭、美籍匈牙利人約瑟夫·普立茲（Joseph Pulitzer）的遺願設立。
19世紀時，卡內基打造鋼鐵業，洛克菲勒是石油業巨頭，摩根成為金融鉅子，而普立茲開創了現代大眾媒體！將美國新聞業打造為握有高度影響力的大眾媒體，也是讓新聞成為監督政治之推手！！
約瑟夫·普立茲(1847~1911) 1847年4月10日出生在匈牙利。父親是匈牙利猶太裔的生意人，母親是篤信羅馬天主教的德國人。受過良好教育的他17歲的他決定參軍，結果卻因視力不佳和身體虛弱而遭到拒絕。之後，如同當時許多歐洲人來到美國追求夢想，在聖路易斯，遇到《西方郵報》的編輯，進入報社開始新聞記者生涯。剛開始他因為身材關係（身長兩米，十分瘦高），常遭同事嘲笑，但因努力不懈，25歲時，普立茲成為一個出版商，此後一系列精明的商務決策，使他在1878年時成為《聖路易斯郵報》的老闆。他以生動的文字報導社會新聞，引起一般市民讀報的興趣，使得報紙成為生活不可或缺之物。紀錄了社會改革的風貌，內容涵蓋各個面向。之後常報導政治事務，讓新聞成為監督政治的利器。
1909年，《世界報》揭露了一起美國對法國巴拿馬運河公司支付四千萬美元的舞弊案。聯邦政府向《世界報》發動了嚴厲反擊，控告普立茲惡毒誹謗希歐多爾·羅斯福總統和包括銀行家J·P·摩根在內的一些人。普立茲沒有退縮，《世界報》繼續進行調查。當法庭撤銷起訴後，普立茲為新聞自由而取得的這場關鍵性勝利贏得了廣泛讚譽。後人遵照他的遺囑，於1912年捐贈250萬美元給哥倫比亞大學，後創建美國第二所新聞學院，並從1917年起設立普立茲獎，普立茲獎已成為新為界表彰專業表現的最高榮譽。
作者花費了五年的時間去寫這本書，足跡遍佈匈牙利，倫敦，聖路易斯，巴黎，美國，並從美國政府資料挖掘當時羅斯福總統想將普立茲入罪之事。呈現了一個栩栩如生的普立茲～(VC)
Awards/获奖情况：作者前作《The Rose Man of Sing Sing》獲華盛頓時報選為年度好書
八度問鼎奧斯卡，好萊塢知名電影大亨，馬丁．史柯西斯（Martin Scorsese ）買下《The Rose Man of Sing Sing》電影版權
“A major biographical success . . . . A thrilling toboggan-ride tour of history. . . . Pulitzer presents a flood of diary entries, statistics, edotirals, memoranda, and cables from its subject’s many ocean voyages. In this cavalcade of American life and letters, the pages fly by.” (The San Francisco Chronicle)
“An accomplished new biography. . . . Pulitzer is not its subject’s first biography. But it is by far the best at explaining Pulitzer’s St. Louis years.” (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
“an attractive, superbly illustrated, and gracefully written account of his subject that might well catch the attention of the Pulitzer Prize trustees.” (The Washington Times)
“James McGrath Morris has given us everything we could have asked for in his new biography of Joseph Pulitzer. Gracefully written and thoroughly researched, his biography is easily the best we have on this remarkable man who so profoundly influenced the worlds of politics and publishing.” (David Nasaw, author of Andrew Carnegie)
“Before there was Murdoch, Berlusconi, Bloomberg, or Hearst, there was Joseph Pulitzer. This epic biography, with its remarkable new research and vivid, fast-paced writing, will delight anyone who wants to understand the tangled history of politics and the press in modern America.” (Debby Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher)
“The name Pulitzer sheds its radiance over many celebrated writers and newspapers; now James McGrath Morris has made the famous name into a living, loving, thrusting, tumultuous—and lurid—innovator. The story has everything—murder, corruption, scandal, and high achievement. Morris’s meticulous biography takes full advantage of new material. ” (Harold Evans, author of The American Century)
“James McGrath Morris masterfully demonstrates the power of biography to reveal our past and inform our future. Deeply researched and beautifully written, Morris has written the definitive Pulitzer.” (Kai Bird, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Prometheus)
About the Author/作者介绍： James McGrath前作《The Rose Man of Sing Sing》被華盛頓時報選為年度好書，好萊塢知名電影大亨，八度問鼎奧斯卡，《神鬼無間》導演馬丁．史柯西斯（Martin Scorsese ）買下電影版權。Biographer’s Craft編輯。作品常見於華盛頓時報、紐約觀察家等。
James McGrath Morris is an author, columnist, and radio show host. He writes primarily biographies and works of narrative nonfiction.
Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Morris spent a decade as a journalist, a decade working in the book and magazine business, and a decade as a high school teacher.
He is currently working on a new work The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway and Dos Passos--Literary Lives in War and Peace that will be published by Da Capo Press in 2017.
Aside from writing books, Morris is the author of a column called "Type A" that explores the changing world of publishing and reading. He is also the host each of month of "Collected Words," a radio show produced by Collected Works Bookstore and Cafe and airs on KVSF.
He is the former president of Biographers International Organization, of which he was among the original founders.
Morris lives in Tesuque, New Mexico with his wife Patty McGrath Morris. His children live in Boston,MA, Albuquerque, NM, and Mar Vista, CA.
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