The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism (Communications and Media Studies, Band 8) - Hardcover

Morris, James McGrath

 
9780823222674: The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism (Communications and Media Studies, Band 8)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0823222675 ISBN 13: 9780823222674
Verlag: Fordham University Press, 2003

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The author tells the extraordinary true story of the legendary newspaper editor who landed in Sing Sing after murdering his wife and became the prison's gardener, transforming fertile ground into rose gardens that rivaled the best in the world. (Biography)

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James McGrath Morris is a former journalist, author of Jailhouse Journalism: The Fourth Estate Behind Bars , and a historian. He lives in Falls Church, Virginia, and teaches at West Springfield High School.

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Today, seventy-three years after his death, journalists still tell tales of Charles E. Chapin. As city editor of Pulitzer's New York Evening World, Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlessly and kept his paper in the center ring of the circus of big-city journalism. From the Harry K. Thaw trial to the sinking of the Titanic, Chapin set the pace for the evening press, the CNN of the pre-electronic world of journalism. In 1918, at the pinnacle of fame, Chapin's world collapsed. Facing financial ruin, sunk in depression, he decided to kill himself and his beloved wife Nellie. On a quiet September morning, he took not his own life, but Nellie's, shooting her as she slept. After his trial and one hell of a story for the World's competitors he was sentenced to life in the infamous Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. In this story of an extraordinary life set in the most thrilling epoch of American journalism, James McGrath Morris tracks Chapin's rise from legendary Chicago street reporter to celebrity powerbroker in media-mad New York. His was a human tragedy played out in the sensational stories of tabloids and broadsheets. But it's also an epic of redemption: in prison, Chapin started a newspaper to fight for prisoner rights, wrote a best-selling autobiography, had two long-distance love affairs, and tapped his prodigious talents to transform barren prison plots into world-famous rose gardens before dying peacefully in his cell in 1930. The first portrait of one of the founding figures of modern American journalism, and a vibrant chronicle of the cutthroat culture of scoops and scandals, The Rose Man of Sing Sing is also a hidden history of New York at its most colorful and passionate. "The life of Charles Chapin with its epic sweep, third-act tragedy, and oddly serene ending could be a novel, could be a movie, and could even be an opera. James McGrath Morris renders it with full justice giving the reader a panoramic tour of fifty years of the American scene while keeping the narrative engine humming. This book is a pleasure." Luc Sante, author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York. "A fascinating look at what happened when an outsized public figure landed in a tiny cell." Ted Conover, author of Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing. "A first rate, highly readable, meticulously researched biography." Denis Brian, author of Pulitzer: A Life. "This well-written biography captures the spirit and flavor of a major newsroom, of the pressure to scoop other papers, and the need to get the news first. . . . Morris's opus is a worthy contribution to this period of American history." Ben Procter, author of William Randolph Hearst: The Early Years, 1863 1910.

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Verlag
Fordham University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0823222675
ISBN 13 
9780823222674
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
437
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