Pulitzer

by W.A. Swanberg

hardbound

Genres: Nonfiction, History, American, Biography

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1967

About the author

A graduate of the University of Minnesota, William Andrew Swanberg worked as a journalist for newspapers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and as an editor for Dell Publishing. After serving in the Office of War Information during World War II, Swanberg worked as a freelance writer and an author of a number of scholarly biographies.

Reviews

[Janet · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a long hard slog, took me forever to read it, but I'm glad I stuck with it. Great feeling of accomplishment when I finished! He was a bizarre person, truly unique (I hope), with immense intelligence and energy.

[Ben Welsh · Rating 3 out of 5]

An exhaustive, and exhausting, biography that took me months to muscle through. But I really enjoyed it. Pulitzer was such a strange, fascinating person. The loss of his health in midlife totally changed him.

[RYD · Rating 3 out of 5]

Joseph Pulitzer is a household name who I, certainly, knew nothing about before I read this book. He comes across as a brilliant but highly neurotic man who had many warts -- his warmongering toward Cuba during the Spanish-American War perhaps the most dramatic example of that.

[Terrence Crimmins · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a well written, compassionate and thorough review of the life of a man who, except for the prize, almost everybody has forgotten, but who effects us all (and not by the prize.)