| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Gerald J. Baldasty. E. W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers. (The History of Communications.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1999. Pp. xii, 217. Cloth $42.50, paper $16.95.

Gerald J. Baldasty has written the type of book we all like to cite as a good example to our students. This study of Edward Willis Scripps, an early press baron who was an advocate for the emerging working class after the Civil War, is based on manuscripts, newspapers, and other primary sources and integrates findings from the wide array of secondary sources about the turn-of-the twentieth century years that also witnessed the early careers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Baldasty's book rewards the tendency for historians to read the footnotes, encouraging one to turn back often. . . .

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