The Yellow Journalism: The Press and America's Emergence as a World Power

by David R. Spencer and Judith Spencer

When a case containing dismembered human remains surfaced in New York's East River in June of 1897, the publisher of the New York Journal--a young, devil-may-care millionaire named William Randolph Hearst--decided that his newspaper would scoop the city's police department by solving this heinous crime. Pulling out all the stops, Hearst launched more than a journalistic murder investigation; his newspaper's active intervention in the city's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810123312
• ISBN13: 9780810123311
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.1"