Article: Speculations on Joseph Pulitzer Gadfly and mystery man.(Biography)

When he died in 1911, Joseph Pulitzer was one of the most famous men in America. The owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World was revered and reviled in equal measure. He was the scourge of the corrupt politicians and moneyed oligarchs who controlled Gilded Age America.

Laborers named children after him; the wealthy vilified him. He appeared on a three-cent stamp. Theodore Roosevelt tried to incarcerate him He was a champion of the freedom of the press and an ardent practitioner of yellow journalism. He remains in the public eye as the creator of the most prestigious awards in American journalism and cultural life.

Yet in spite of his ...

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