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Tifft, Susan E.; Jones, Alex S. The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty
New York, New York, U.S.A. Summit Books 1991 0671631675 / 9780671631673 Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine
Near-new copy. NO remainder marks or price clippings - Price inside dustcover: $24.95 - Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - Illustrated with photos. Tight spine - Bright pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 575 pages - Annotation The Patriarch traces the turbulent history of one of the nation's most powerful newspaper companies and the family that built it. Based on years of archival research and interviews with Bingham intimates, it is a searing examination of three generations of an American family beset with mystery and vicious rivalry. 16 pages of photos. From The Critics Publishers Weekly Each succeeding generation of the Bingham clan, Kentucky's self-styled ``First Family'' and owners of a progressive newspaper empire that crumbled in 1986, considered itself hexed by a dark family secret. When fabulously wealthy Mary Lily Flagler, wife of Robert Worth Bingham, died in 1917, rumors circulated that he had murdered her. But this enthralling, juicy, prodigiously researched saga presents compelling evidence that she died from cardiovascular syphilis--and that she knew she had the ailment when she married her cruelly unforgiving husband. Her stepson, ``patriarch'' Barry Bingham Sr., dominated the family with manipulative cunning while remaining emotionally aloof. Generally evenhanded in sorting out the claims of mutually antagonistic Bingham scions, this husband-wife author team (Tifft is a Time associate editor, Jones a New York Times reporter) offers withering portrayals of ``Baby Bear'' Barry Jr., who carried his ideals to ridiculous extremes, and of Sallie Bingham, limned as a highhanded, comically inept businesswoman whose self-proclaimed feminism overlays festering childhood wounds. Photos. Author tour. (Apr.) Library Journal This straightforward, balanced account details the buildup of a newspaper empire by the Binghams of Louisville, Kentucky, and the squabbling among family members that caused Barry Bingham Sr., the patriarch, to decide to sell it all. Tifft, an associate editor of Time magazine, and Jones, a New York Times reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Binghams, have done their homework, interviewing family members and others involved and consulting correspondence in various archives. Readers may wonder at first if they care about this rich family that fought so publicly, but they will soon discover that, in many ways, the Binghams are like us all. Sallie Bingham's Passion and Prejudice ( LJ 2/1/89) gives a more intimate and, of course, different view of the same story. Libraries that bought that one will want this one, too.-- Rebecca Wondriska, Trinity Coll. Lib., Hartford, Ct.
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Tifft, Susan E.; Jones, Alex S. The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Little Brown & Company 1999 0316845469 / 9780316845465 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Near-new condition - Stated First Edition - Dustcover shows mild wear and 1 small tear. Book is in Fine Condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - Illustrated with photos. 870 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. "Through their dynastic control of The New York Times, the Ochses and Sulzbergers have been the most powerful family in twentieth-century America. Not only have they owned the Times for more than a hundred years, but a family member has always been at the paper's helm, a position that has given them enormous influence and has been passed down as a birthright through four generations. Yet by design they have always been intensely private, shunning the visibility their stature inherently commands. The Trust is the first full-scale portrait of this modern monarchy, a dramatic saga set against a backdrop of world events and the burden and privilege of wealth and power. Here is the story of Adolph Ochs, a visionary dedicated to presenting the news objectively, a man who appeared supremely confident yet was often racked by depression and insecurity; of his daughter, Iphigene, an exceptional woman whose gender prevented her from achieving official authority at the Times but who used her position as family matriarch to foster and guard its mystique; of her husband, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who began his career at the Times as an unpromising son-in-law but went on to become a brilliant and controversial publisher, steering the paper through the crises of World War II, the Holocaust, and the excesses of McCarthyism; of his only son, Punch, who came to the publisher's job with little discernible talent, yet proved tough enough to guide the paper to its greatest journalistic and financial heights; and of the paper's most recent leader, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., who struggles daily with the task of preserving his forebears' values amid the uncertainties of a digital age. With novelistic drive and detail, The Trust tells the story of how the domestic dramas of one extraordinary clan shaped the pages of the greatest newspaper in the world; of a Jewish family that found itself under attack for its policies from both anti-Semites and Jews alike; of succession battles, human frailty, and tremendous affluence; and of the legacy of public responsibility that has driven the family to serve as devoted stewards of a trust they hold sacred. The Trust was written with the full cooperation of the Ochses and Sulzbergers and unconditional access to The New York Times' archives, but with the authors retaining complete independence. The result is not only a richly detailed portrait of an American dynasty but a fascinating chronicle of the twentieth century."
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