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Film, Video Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson

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Title

  • Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson

Summary

  • Amanda Smith discussed her Patterson biography, "Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson." She was called the most powerful woman in America, surpassing first ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Bess Truman; ambassador, writer, journalist and member of Congress Clare Boothe Luce; and New York Post owner and publisher Dorothy Schiff. Cissy Patterson was from a publishing family. Her grandfather was Joseph Medill--firebrand abolitionist, mayor of Chicago, editor-in-chief and principal owner of the Chicago Tribune, and one of the founders of the Republican Party, who delivered the crucial Ohio delegation to Abraham Lincoln at the convention of 1860. Cissy Patterson's brother, Joe Medill Patterson, started the New York Daily News. Her pedigree notwithstanding, Patterson did not come to publishing until shortly before her 49th birthday, in 1930, with almost no practical journalistic or editorial experience and a life out of the pages of Edith Wharton.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Center for the Book, sponsoring body
  • Library of Congress. Serial & Government Publications Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2012-03-15.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Government, World Affairs
  • -  Cities, Towns

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Amanda Smith.
  • -  Recorded on 2012-03-15.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688826

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Serial & Government Publications Division. Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-15, 2012. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688826/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress, Library Of Congress. Center For The Book, S. B. & Library Of Congress. Serial & Government Publications Division, S. B. (2012) Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-15. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688826/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Serial & Government Publications Division. Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-15, 2012. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688826/>.