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Article: No Ordinary Joe: a Life of Joseph Pulitzer III.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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NO ORDINARY JOE: A LIFE OF JOSEPH PULITZER III by Daniel W. Pfaff University of Missouri Press 359 pp. $34.95
Fourteen years ago, Daniel W. Pfaff, now a professor emeritus at Penn State University, completed an exhaustive biography of Joseph Pulitzer II (1885-1955), the son whom the first Joseph Pulitzer left in charge of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch when he died in 1911. This similarly detailed biography of the third Joseph Pulitzer (19131993), son of Joseph II, also centers on the Post-Dispatch. Had he been born into another family, Joe (as Pfaff calls him) might have pursued his interest in art as a profession rather than a sideline; as it was, he shouldered ...