The Magnificent Medills by Megan Mckinney
"A knock-out dynastic history about the world of journalism. In The Magnificent Medills we learn how a single family forever changed Chicago and America. It's impossible to understand today's modern media world without reading this brilliant book. Highly recommended!" -Douglas Brinkley, author of The Quiet World In the vein of Alan Brinkley's The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century and Katharine Graham's Personal History comes the first comprehensive chronicle of the Medill family-a riveting true story of the country's first media dynasty whose power and influence shaped the story of America for four generations.
"[An] immensely entertaining book.. McKinney vividly re-creates the city's no-holds-barred newspaper culture." -- Chicago Tribune "Shifting smoothly from the life of one Medill, Patterson or McCormick to another, in the end she achieves a clear and comprehensive family biography, with all its complex interconnections." -- New York Times Book Review "A solid account of this family." -- Washington Post "Megan McKinney has written a knock-out dynastic history about the world of journalism. In The Magnificent Medills we learn how a single family forever changed Chicago and America. It's impossible to understand today's modern media world without reading this brilliant book. Highly recommended!" -- Douglas Brinkley, author of The Quiet World "Megan McKinney's wonderfully researched, thoroughly engrossing, The Magnificent Medills, reveals Chicago's McCormick-Patterson family in all its dazzling brilliance and delicious eccentricity." -- David Garrard Lowe, author of Lost Chicago "Compulsively readable... With its backdrop of wealth and power, The Magnificent Medills reads almost like a rich historical novel. It just happens to be true." -- BookPage "An intensely personal look at the Medill family... Meticulously researched and detailed." -- Washington Independent Review of Books "Chicago historian McKinney provides the first comprehensive chronicle of the Medill newspaper dynasty... Deftly tell[ing] the tale of one of America's first families of business." -- Philanthropy Magazine Review "Ink, booze and eccentricity flow through a newspaper dynasty's veins in this lively, gossipy clan bio... Like her subjects, McKinney blends canny fact-finding, well-paced narrative and colorful detail into a compulsively readable confection." -- Publishers Weekly "It is their brilliance in publishing newspapers when newspapers really mattered, combined with lives full of fault lines, that truly fascinates... A solid account of the life and times of a family that was indeed magnficent." -- Kirkus Reviews "This portrait of a storied newspaper dynasty packs a powerful punch... Not only a compulsively readable collective biography but also an overview of the rapid evolution of the American newspaper industry during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries." -- Booklist
Megan McKinney is an expert on historic Chicago families. She has written for Town & Country, TV Guide, Opera News and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She lives in Chicago.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780061782237 |
| ISBN 10 | 0061782238 |
| Title | The Magnificent Medills |
| Author | Megan Mckinney |
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| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2012-02-05 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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