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The James Gordon Bennetts : Father and Son, Proprietors of the New York Herald
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Indianapolis
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Bobbs-Merrill
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"After writing the lives of Joseph Pulitzer, recreator of the World, and of Horace Greeley, founder of the Tribune, it seemed to me there remained a gap in the history of nineteenth-century journalism, as far as New York is concerned, that should be filled with the story of James Gordon Bennett and his son, respectively proprietors of the Herald. One built up a great newspaper, the other kept it great until the time when age made him uncertain amid the confusions of the World War. In enterprise and attainment, outside of public service, the Herald's record remains unsurpassed in American journalism. It is they, rather than the Herald, whom I hope to have now introduced to a wider understanding." [Author]