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society pages of, 171, 203, 320
style of, 98–99, 138, 203, 213–14, 251–52
subscriptions for, 160, 162
tabloid, 462
two-cent, 320, 322, 323, 355, 357
typography of, 2, 154, 175, 190–91, 287, 341, 379
wholesale price of, 224, 350–53, 355, 357, 517n
women readers of, 197, 203
see also specific newspapers
New Testament, 66n, 459
New Year’s Day (Wharton), 112–13
New York, N.Y., 21–22, 27–28, 37, 90–91, 112–14, 124, 128–30, 135–36, 137, 145, 151, 153, 177–78, 189, 201, 202, 206–40, 242, 244–53, 269, 272, 276, 290–91, 299, 305–8, 312–13, 391, 411, 421, 424–26, 429–36, 446–47, 449, 452, 454–55, 456
New York American and Journal, 372–73, 418
New York Central Railroad, 245
New York Commercial Advertiser, 274
New York Evening Journal, 334, 349–53, 357–58, 518n
New York Evening Mail, 453
New York Evening Post, 192, 224, 315, 320
New York Evening World, 261–62, 323, 334, 349–53, 357–58, 380, 403–4, 431–32
New York First Cavalry Regiment (“Lincoln Regiment”), 22–27, 44, 478n–79n
New York Herald, 98, 99–100, 121, 135, 174, 192, 197, 198, 208, 219, 223, 224, 232, 249, 252, 274, 284, 288–89, 299–300, 303, 313, 319, 321, 324, 355
New York Herald-Tribune, 462
New York Journal, 3–4, 321–32, 334, 338–41, 343, 372–73, 388, 517n, 518n, 519n
New York Journal of Commerce, 74
New York Mail, 145
New York Morgen Journal, 321
New York Morning Advertiser, 292, 355
New York Morning Journal, 197–98, 202–3, 206–7, 208, 209–10, 211, 215, 220, 223, 226, 229, 254, 292, 319–21, 441
New York Press, 341
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, 261
New York Staats-Zeiting, 130, 228, 496n
New York State, 130, 185, 189, 219–20, 222–23, 231–32, 272, 306–7, 389, 406–7
New York Sun, 98–100, 129–33, 136, 138, 151–52 (Pul), 153, 192, 198, 208, 216, 223, 224, 226, 232, 261–63, 280, 294, 300, 303, 306, 314, 321, 326, 333, 342, 496n, 498n
New York Times, 86, 98, 127, 192, 193–94, 197, 217, 219, 223, 224, 249, 275, 278, 280, 317, 321, 331, 355, 357, 363, 380, 387, 411, 418, 429, 430, 452, 459, 462, 490n, 499n
New York Tribune, 84, 90–91, 98, 129, 177–78, 192, 198, 202, 208, 219, 230, 321, 355, 458, 506n
New York World, see World
New York World-Journal, 207–8
New York World-Telegram, 462
Niagara Falls, 508n
Nicoll, De Lancey, 253, 262–63, 429, 430, 435, 446–47
Niederwiester, Tony, 31
Nobel, Alfred, xi, 378
Nolan, Kate, 134–35
Norris, John, 323, 325–26, 336, 343, 344–45, 346, 357, 363, 365, 459
Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Baron, 411
Oceanic, 368, 370
Ochs, Adolph, 323, 357, 363, 380, 387, 418, 462
Offenbach, Jacques, 100, 140
Ohio, 124–25, 128, 188, 189, 217
Orezy House, 475n
Orthodox Jews, 10–11, 12
O’Toole, Phelim, 497n
Outcault, Richard F., 330–31
Pagenstecher, Hermann, 298, 513n
Panama Canal, 4, 417–40, 446–50, 455, 525n, 526n
Pan-American Exposition (1901), 372
Pan-Electric Telegraph Co., 241–42
Paris Opera, 280–81
Parker, Alton B., 390, 393
Parsons, John E., 259
Patriarch Ball, 258
Patrick, William, 83, 101, 157, 160, 173, 481n
patronage, political, 78–79, 83–84, 94–97, 224, 234–35
Patti, Carlotta, 183
Peninsular, 282–83
Penny Lunch Room, 140
People’s Party, 105
Pest, 10, 11, 12–17, 71, 480n
Petöfi, Sándor, 12
Phelan, William, 65
Phelps, Walter, 265
Philadelphia Ledger, 174, 279
Philadelphia Times, 126
Philharmonic Society, 461
Philippines, 342–43, 359
Phillips, David Graham, 300–303, 311, 344, 353, 354, 356, 359–60, 365, 374–75, 381, 450–51, 513n
Pickwick Papers, The (Dickens), 51
Pike, Albert, 140
Pilgrims of the Rhine, The (Bulwer-Lytton), 14
Plato, 14
Pliny the Elder, 277
pneumonia, 221, 300, 302
Politzer, Adam, 367–68, 443
Pollard, Harold Stanley, 411–12, 444, 446
poll books, 139
Ponsonby, Claude, 272–73, 276, 277, 278, 281, 282, 283, 285, 290, 291, 292, 297, 300, 301, 307
Populist Party, 293–94
Post, George Brown, 274–75, 276, 286
Preetorius, Anna, 483n
Preetorius, Emil, 34, 35, 36, 39, 44, 45, 46, 49, 70, 74, 76, 93, 96, 101, 104, 119, 164, 173, 481n, 482n, 483n
press, freedom of the, 118–19, 150, 426–27, 429, 434, 449–50
Press Publishing company, 434, 435
Progress and Poverty (George), 246
prussic acid, 443
Puck, 226
Pulitzer, Albert:
ambition of, 144, 197–98, 206–7, 254, 319
birth of, 476n
childhood of, 12, 13–14, 16, 17
divorce of, 320, 441–42
funeral of, 443
health of, 319, 527n
as immigrant, 36–39, 51–52, 71, 321
Jewish background of, 443
love affairs of, 254, 442
memoir of, xii, 442, 505n
as Morning Journal publisher, 197–98, 202–3, 206–7, 208, 209–10, 211, 215, 223, 226, 229, 254, 292, 319–21, 441
in New York, 197–98, 202–3, 206–7, 254, 319–21
in Paris, 254, 319, 320
personality of, 51–52, 198, 319–20, 442–43
physical appearance of, 319, 442
Pulitzer’s estrangement from, 210, 254, 382, 441–44, 527n
Pulitzer’s rivalry with, 144, 197–98, 206–7, 209–10, 223, 229
as reporter, 98–100, 112, 121, 128, 137, 197, 198, 319–20, 492n
in San Francisco, 442, 527n
suicide of, xii, 442–44
in Vienna, 320, 442–43
wealth of, 254, 319, 321, 441, 527n
will of, 527n
Pulitzer, Baruch Simon, 10
Pulitzer, Constance Helen, 272, 280, 285, 343, 361, 367, 395, 396, 445, 457, 459–60, 461, 462
Pulitzer, Edith, 244, 265, 278, 280, 361, 367, 380, 387–88, 395, 396, 405–6, 445, 457, 459–60, 461, 462
Pulitzer, Elinor Wickham, 448, 452, 462
Pulitzer, Elizabeth Edgar, 462
Pulitzer, Elize Berger, xiii, 9, 10, 12–17, 21–22, 23, 32, 37, 41, 51, 62, 98, 135–36, 141, 191, 210, 397, 444, 480n, 498n
Pulitzer, Fanny Barnard, 121, 135, 254, 320, 441–42
Pulitzer, Frederica Webb, 394–95, 401–3, 406, 461
Pulitzer, Fülöp, 9–10, 12–17, 41, 210, 444, 474n, 475n
Pulitzer, Herbert, 361, 367, 368, 387–88, 445, 452, 457, 460, 461, 462
Pulitzer, Joseph:
accent of, 109, 141
age misrepresented by, 22, 35, 57, 71, 74
in Aiken, S.C., 198
in Aix-les-Bains, 238, 254, 343, 363, 366, 374, 375, 385, 391, 396, 441
in Albany, N.Y., 192–93, 224–25
in Alexandria, Va., 25
ambition of, 32, 35–36, 116, 159–61, 166, 171–72, 184, 186, 187–88, 205–9, 273, 355–59
“Andes” as codename for, 365, 520n
angina of, 458
in Antwerp, 19
anxiety of, 303–4
arrest of, 66
arrest warrants f
or, 240, 426, 446
art collection of, 238, 241, 254, 257, 258, 362, 373–74
assembly election campaign of (1869), 52–69, 75, 488n–89n
assembly election campaign of (1870), 73–77
as assemblyman, 52–69, 71–75, 97, 143, 485n–87n
assimilation by, 10–11, 15, 109, 141, 146, 152
Associated Press (AP) membership of, 102, 153, 154, 160, 170–71, 175–76, 355, 358, 518n
auctions attended by, 101–3, 153–57, 172
in Baden-Baden, 298
in Bad Homburg, 380–81
in Bad Kissingen, 238
bail set for, 66, 240
in Berlin, 441, 443, 444
biographies of, xi–xiii, 478n, 479n–80n, 481n, 484n, 487n, 490n, 497n
birthday of, 133, 362, 379, 394, 395, 410, 479n
birth of, 9–11, 475n, 476n, 479n
in Bismarck, S.Dak., 218
in Bladensburg, Va., 25
blindness of, 1, 4, 17, 263–65, 269–304, 309–10, 312, 329, 359, 409–10, 413–14, 427, 428–29, 444, 452–53, 484n, 514n
Bonnat’s portrait of, 310
in Boonville, Mo., 109
in Boston, 18, 20–21, 188, 476n
“breach of peace” fine against, 64–65
bronchitis contracted by, 284–85
in Brunswick, Ga., 295, 331
byline of, 132, 152
California trip of, 265, 269–71, 272
campaign tours of, 84–189, 106–7, 124–33, 138, 208, 224, 225, 228–29, 230
capitalists opposed by, 186–89, 198–99, 205, 208–9, 217–18, 245, 259, 293–98, 299–300, 371
at Cap Martin, 328–29, 407–9, 441, 444–46, 448
cards played by, 173, 306
caricatures of, 75, 101, 104, 108, 307, 377
as cavalry officer, 22–27, 44, 478n–79n
in Charleston, S.C., 420, 456–57
at Chatwold estate (Bar Harbor), 301, 302, 306–7, 312, 326–27, 332–36, 337, 343, 348, 354, 355–59, 371, 372, 373, 375–76, 377, 383–84, 391, 400, 401, 404, 410–11, 449, 452–54, 461
chess played by, 34, 306, 481n, 482n
in Chicago, 224
childhood of, xii, 11–17, 135–36, 337, 382
in Cincinnati, Ohio, 84–90, 126, 181–83
circumcision (Brit Milah) of, 10, 475n, 498n
as city editor, 50, 90, 91–93, 96, 97, 119, 127
as Civil War veteran, 18–27, 35, 44, 108, 274, 458, 476n, 478n–79n, 480n
as clerk for legislative committee, 76
as clerk for lumberyard, 32, 33, 35, 381n
in Cleveland, Ohio, 188–89
club memberships of, 216, 509n
codebooks used by, 2, 364–65, 428, 444, 519n–20n
coffin of, 457–60
in Cologne, Germany, 370
Columbia University School of Journalism endowed by, 4, 337, 376–79, 386–87, 389, 394, 446, 458, 461
congressional campaign of (1880), 177–81, 184–88, 229, 232
congressional campaign of (1884), 229, 232
congressional term served by, 234, 240–43, 508n
Cooper Union speech of (1876), 128–29
correspondence of, 2, 5, 17, 41–42, 114, 126, 142–43, 153, 215, 239, 247, 263–64, 272–73, 275–76, 277, 281, 282–83, 285, 302, 310, 325–26, 335, 346–47, 364, 367, 374, 375, 382, 384–88, 389, 394, 401, 404–9, 445, 448, 451, 481n, 484n, 497n, 511n, 523n
corruption opposed by, 3, 4–5, 47–50, 59–68, 74, 106, 125–26, 151, 162–64, 184, 195, 199, 209–10, 222–23, 228, 241–42, 262
in Cuba, 221
death certificate of, 458
death feared by, 15–16, 221
death of, 376–77, 455–56, 462
debts of, 155, 160, 170–71, 175–76, 205–6, 210, 232, 257, 289
Deer Island escape of, 20, 477n
as Democrat, 4, 106–12, 116, 124–33, 139–40, 161, 165, 181–89, 192, 199, 216, 217, 219–32, 241, 246, 262, 269, 285–86, 293, 369–70, 388–93, 406–7, 415–16, 417, 451–52, 456
democratic ideals of, 25, 57, 58, 106, 123, 125, 149–52, 186, 208–9, 294, 308–9, 314, 499n
depressions of, 263–65, 269–83, 288, 298, 303–4, 305, 328–29, 336, 337, 340, 343, 346–47, 369, 376, 387–88, 407–11, 431, 436, 444–46, 451, 458
in Detroit, Mich., 128
as Deutsche Gesselschaft secretary, 35–36
dictation by, 277, 282–83, 364, 448, 484n
diet of, 306
as Eads Bridge investor, 103
economic views of, 3, 10, 11, 16, 57, 118, 120, 164, 165, 219, 235, 246, 293–94, 301, 307, 309, 315–17, 326, 327, 328, 332–33, 348, 384, 391, 485n
education of, 12, 13–14, 32–33, 35, 50, 64, 101
enemies of, 4–5, 61–66, 70–71, 73–74, 95–97, 110, 126–27, 173, 174, 175–76, 179–80, 185, 186–87, 194, 196, 199, 201–2, 222–23, 224, 227, 228–29, 241–42, 245, 246, 261–63, 265, 276, 280, 297, 316–18, 387, 389, 404, 406–7, 416, 421–40, 446–50, 455, 526n
in England, 2, 149–50, 151, 152, 238, 254–56, 271–72, 277, 289, 290, 292, 300–301, 312, 324–25, 343, 344, 347–48, 366, 368, 370, 381, 397–98, 411, 441
English spoken by, 27, 30, 32, 35, 48, 109, 126, 136, 152, 481n
engravings of, 76–77
essays written by, 61–66, 151–52, 153
European autocracy as viewed by, 123, 125, 149–52, 294, 314, 426–27, 499n
European trips of, 97–98, 100, 122–23, 124, 125, 144, 149–51, 221, 235, 237–38, 243–44, 250, 253–56, 271–85, 289–301, 303–5, 324–25, 363–65, 441, 512n
eyeglasses worn by, 18, 134, 179, 211, 249, 413
family business of, 10, 12–13, 16
as father, 42, 170, 172–73, 176, 188, 195–96, 198, 215, 221, 243, 244, 253, 256, 265, 278, 304–5, 309–10, 311, 333, 335–38, 340, 343, 361, 366–68, 371, 382, 387–88, 394–95, 402–3, 410, 444–46, 448, 457, 462
as ferryman, 29–30, 103
fictional portrayal of, 303, 354, 359–60, 374–75, 381
final illness of, 456–57, 458
finances of, 2, 13–14, 16, 17, 21–22, 26–28, 34, 56, 68–69, 78, 91, 93, 97, 101–3, 112, 116, 141, 150, 153–55, 160, 170–71, 173, 175–76, 190, 197–98, 205–6, 210, 232, 257, 289, 293–94, 340, 444, 489n, 519n–21n
free silver movement opposed by, 293–94, 301, 307, 309, 315, 326, 328, 332–33, 348, 384, 391
on French Riviera, 276, 280–81, 328–29
French spoken by, 14, 31, 32, 409
friendships of, 32, 39–42, 50, 56, 62, 63–64, 95, 100–101, 103, 108, 126–27, 128, 137, 202, 224, 228–29, 239, 243–44, 245, 246, 247, 253–54, 259–60, 270–73, 295, 322, 369, 374–76, 381–82, 401, 404, 411, 444–45, 483n–84n, 513n
funeral of, 457–60
funerals avoided by, 16, 135, 324, 344, 369, 376, 404, 443, 451
gallstones of, 458
generosity of, 140, 191, 202, 227, 247, 278, 376–79, 455, 461
as German American, 9, 28, 30–31, 35–36, 39–40, 43, 54, 56, 57, 65, 67, 71, 73, 81, 89, 90–91, 96, 102, 107, 109, 125, 129, 130, 141, 185, 188, 228, 260, 482n–83n, 488n
German spoken by, 14, 23, 28, 30–31, 32, 35–36, 57, 122, 126, 130, 398, 457
Gramercy Park house of, 216, 221
as grandfather, 406, 452–53
grave site of, 460
in Greece, 408
in Hamburg, Germany, 18, 476n
handkerchief ring ordered by, 21–22, 136, 478n
handwriting of, 34, 201, 272, 277
in Havana, 1–2
health of, 1–2, 32, 190, 221, 237–39, 243, 246–47, 250, 254, 255, 256, 263–65, 269–88, 290, 292, 294–95, 298, 303–4, 309–10, 311, 312, 319, 325, 328–29, 335, 343, 359–60, 370, 376, 384–85, 389, 394, 407–9, 425, 428–29, 436, 451, 454, 456–57, 458, 514n
heir of, 301, 454–55, 462
in Helena, Mont., 218
homecoming banquet for (1873), 100–101
honeymoon of, 144
, 149–51
honorable discharge of, 26–27
horseback riding by, 103, 173, 271, 306, 375–76, 398, 411
horse named after, 307
hotel accommodations of, 112–16, 120, 124, 126, 133–35, 137, 140, 192, 207, 216, 254, 270, 272, 277, 282, 295, 303, 304, 325, 328–29
hotel fire survived by, 133–35, 177, 348