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THE JAMES GORDON BENNETTS—Don C. Seitz—Bobbs-Merrill ($5).
The Father. "Newspapers, as such, hardly deserved the name until this impertinent Scotchman came along. . . .' Before he founded the New York Herald in 1835 as a penny daily, newspapers were essentially windy political and personal organs. James Gordon Bennett gave the public hot news: the first stock table, Wall Street stories (including swindles and names), police reports, scandals. He made a sensation of the murder of a famed courtesan. He pried into...
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