ABOUT THIS BOOK

This is the acclaimed biography of a giant of American journalism. As editor-publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Robert R. McCormick came to personify his city. Drawing on McCormick's personal papers and years of research, Richard Norton Smith has written the definitive life of the towering figure known as The Colonel.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

RICHARD NORTON SMITH is director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. His other books include Thomas E. Dewey and His Times (Simon and Schuster, 1982), a finalist for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize; and Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation (Mariner, 1997). Smith is also a regular participant in the roundtable discussions on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, so he has visibility on public television.

REVIEWS

"Richard Norton Smith is a delightful writer, and The Colonel sparkles from start to finish. This is a terrific book, full of insight and surprise, often funny, consistently fair, and as brimming with life as its Chicago setting. Readers are in for a grand time." --David McCullough, author of John Adams

"Richard Norton Smith is everything The Colonel wasn't--judicious, clear-headed, and historically accurate. For all these virtues he's still managed to produce a biography that wonderfully captures his eccentric, pigheaded, impossible (and sometimes even likeable) subject. The Colonel is as big as all Chicago--a fresh, informative, and hugely entertaining book." --Thomas Mallon

"The best book ever written about the press." --Hilton Kramer

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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

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