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The Astonishing Mr. Scripps : The Turbulent Life of America's Penny Press Lord
by Trimble, Vance H
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0813806798
- ISBN 13
- 9780813806792
- Seller
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1992. Book has 546 pages. DJ has some wear to edge. The first complete and intimately candid biograhy of one of the giants of American journalism, F. W. Scripps, the bumpkin thirteenth child of a failed London bookbinder, left his hardscrabble Illinois farm life in 1874 to become a $3-a-week office boy on his older half-brother's Detroit newspaper. There hehad a hand in starting the two-cent Evening News - cheap and sensational and a far cry form the dull "blanket sheet" of the time. . Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000171
- Title
- The Astonishing Mr. Scripps : The Turbulent Life of America's Penny Press Lord
- Author
- Trimble, Vance H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0813806798
- ISBN 13
- 9780813806792
- Publisher
- Iowa State University Press
- Place of Publication
- Ames, IA
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- SCRIPPS EDWARD WYLLIS 1854 1926
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Biography/Autobiography;
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