The Yellow Kids; Foreign Correspondents in the Heyday of Yellow Journalism
New York: Harper and Row, 1989. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xix, [1], 412 pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Price-clipped. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. Joyce Milton is the author of "Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin" and several other books. She is also the coauthor of "The Rosenberg File." She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Substantial index entries on Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. Derived from a Kirkus review: This portrait of yellow journalists in the latter half of the 1890's is a appropriate to the subject. Milton follows the competition between N.Y.C.'s biggest publishers of yellow journalism--the aggressive but socially inept William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. As the two publishers bid for writers, their reporters are out at the borders of America's new-found sphere of influence, not just writing but making the news. Milton describes the work of the yellow journalists in Cuba, where they ride on the boats of arms smugglers until their publishers buy their own ""filibuster"" boats. Between dispatches about the politics behind the Cuban war of-independence, writers also send home fantastic stories of life in the tropics and the locals strange war tactics, such as crop sabotage committed with kerosene-soaked snakes. Milton introduces the journalists--including engineer-turned-reporter Sylvester Scovel and the seedy ""literary genius"" Stephen Crane--with biographical sketches before going on to tell of their adventures in the battlefields of Greece or on the road to Alaskan gold mines. She also covers the writers' decisions of when to withhold critical reports of the US army and inept generals, as well as the reporters' simultaneous work of criticizing U.S. military policy and collecting military intelligence on a volunteer basis. Milton does not judge the work of the yellow journalists but offers a lively description of publishers and correspondents that presents the glamor of newspaper work. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: War Correspondents, Journalists, Richard Harding Davis, Arthur Brisbane, Stephen Crane, Maximo Gomez, William Randolph Hearst, William McKinley, Joseph Pulitzer, Bradford Merrill, Ralph Paine, George Rea, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Scovel, Frances Sco
ISBN: 0060161159
[Book #73524]
Price: $45.00