Now in paperback comes the epic biography of the Ochses and the Sulzbergers, the families that have owned and run "The New York Times" for more than a century. of photos.
Alex Jones and Susan Tifft have written a masterful book about the Sulzbergers, America's premier media family and stewards of arguably the world's greatest newspaper.
Alex Jones and Susan Tifft have written a masterful book about the Sulzbergers, America's premier media family and stewards of arguably the world's greatest newspaper. Offering rich detail and flowing prose, they capture the ethos of The New York Times and the remarkable men and women who own the paper, who run it, and who serve unflaggingly in the public interest.
In their big, admiring new book The Trust, which is certain to stand as the definitive work on the subject for a good long while, they . The authors must surely have known that.
In their big, admiring new book The Trust, which is certain to stand as the definitive work on the subject for a good long while, they provide ample evidence for their claim. Tifft and Jones are former journalists-she with Time magazine and he with the Times itself, where he covered the news industry and won a Pulitzer Prize. Earlier, they collaborated on a big history of another journalistic dynasty-the Binghams of Louisville.
As all this aptly demonstrates the New York Times is a family run newspaper. As the authors point out it has the features of both a corporate enterprise and a monarchy. In many ways the Ochs-Sulzbergers over the years have tried to be as inauspicious as possible.
THE TRUST: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times, by Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones. PLAINSONG, by Kent Haruf
book by Alex S. As in their previous book The Patriarch (about the Bingham family of the Louisville Courier-Journal), Tifft and Jones write beautifully and with great skill for handling detail and narrative.
book by Alex S. This mammoth history of the dynasty that created and controls The New York Times is as epic in its scope as is the role of the newspaper in America. They also have the ability to balance candor and fairness, steering a sober, high-minded course between warts-and-all skepticism and obsequious hagiography.
The Ochses and Sulzbergers not only owned the New York Times for more than 100 years, but a family member has always been at the paper's helm, a position that gave them enormous influence and has been passed down as a birthright. A very powerful and influential family that guarded their privacy, shunning the visibility their stature inherently commanded.
In 1999, the pair co-authored The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times, the first .
In 1999, the pair co-authored The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times, the first full-scale portrait of Adolph Ochs and his descendants Academic. Journal Opinion Staff. Obituary: Susan E. Tifft".
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 795-796) and index. Private and powerful family behind The New York Times.