Illustrations
Medills, Pattersons, McCormicks: a Partial Family Tree
Prologue: the Voice of America
I. Splendid Monsters, 1823-1903
1. The House of Medill
2. A Second Son
3. Fitting In
II. Bulldog, 1903-1918
4. Silk Stockings
5. Into His Own
6. The Wine of Death
7. Kaiser Bill, Kaiser Will
III. The World's Greatest Newspaperman, 1919-1932
8. "We Seem to Be Fighting All the Time"
9. The Man in the Tower
10. Hard Times
IV. The Fox and the Crow, 1933-1945
11. The Duel
12. Undominated
13. America First
14. At War
V. Some Private Sort of Greatness, 1945-1955;
15. The Last Leaf on the Tree
16. April Fool
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index