Richard J Tofel: 2 books
Restless Genius
Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
The story of the man who transformed The Wall Street Journal and modern media
In 1929, Barney Kilgore, fresh from college in small-town Indiana, took a sleepy, near bankrupt New York financial paper—*The Wall Street Journal—*and turned it into a thriving national newspaper that eventually...
Eight Weeks in Washington, 1861
Abraham Lincoln and the Hazards of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
A close look at the first eight weeks after Abraham Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861, reveals a time when the fate of the nation's capital, certainly of the Lincoln Administration, and perhaps of the nation itself, seemed very much in doubt.
This is a story of a president uncertain and...