Biographies

James McGrath Morris, "Pulitzer: A Life in Politics. Print, and Power" and Michael Wolff, "The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch"

James McGrath Morris; Michael Wolff

About the Program

James McGrath Morris and Michael Wolff discuss the professional and private lives of Joseph Pulitzer and Rupert Murdoch.  The authors examine the differences and similarities between the two media heads, the way each changed journalism in their respective eras, and the great transformations in the media that occurred in the late nineteenth-century and the early twenty-first century.  James McGrath Morris and Michael Wolff present their books at the Strand Bookstore in New York City.

About the Authors

James McGrath Morris

James McGrath Morris is the author of The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism.  Mr. Morris is the editor of the monthly publication Biographer's Craft.


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Michael Wolff

Michael Wolff is a Vanity Fair columnist and two-time National Magazine Award winner. He is a commentator for CNBC and founder of newser.com. Mr. Wolff is a former columnist for New York Magazine, as well as The Guardian and Spectator, published in the United Kingdom. He's the author of Autumn of the Moguls and Burn Rate.


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Program Information

James McGrath Morris, "Pulitzer: A Life in Politics. Print, and Power" and Michael Wolff, "The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch"

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  • Sunday, February 28th at 7:30pm (ET)
  • Saturday, February 27th at 5pm (ET)
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