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The Lady Upstairs: Dorothy Schiff and the New York Post
The Lady Upstairs: Dorothy Schiff and the New York Post
The Lady Upstairs: Dorothy Schiff and the New York Post
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The Lady Upstairs is the dramatic story of Dorothy Schiff---liberal activist, society stalwart, and the most dynamic female newspaper publisher of her day. From 1939 until 1976 she owned and guided the New York Post, the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the United States. Dolly, as she was called, made the Post one of the most dedicated supporters of New Deal liberalism in the country, while simultaneously maintaining its distinct personality as a chatty, parochial, New York tabloid.
Unfazed by political or personal controversy, Schiff backed editorial writers like James Wechsler and Max Lerner and reporters like Murray Kempton and Pete Hamill. Under her guidance the Post broke the story of Richard Nixon's slush fund. It helped bring down such icons of the day as Joseph McCarthy, Walter Winchell, and Robert Moses. It supported the civil rights movement and opposed the Vietnam War. Although Dolly seldom appeared in the newsroom, she approved and commented on every major story and every minor column in the paper, until eventually selling it to Rupert Murdoch.
Dolly's private life could have been a staple of the Post's society gossip columns. Endlessly flirtatious, she married four times and had extra-marital romances with, among others, Franklin Roosevelt and Max Beaverbrook. She was a friend of national politicians such as Adlai Stevenson, the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson, and Nelson Rockefeller. Born into a staunchly Republican German-Jewish banking family, she used her inheritance to further causes of the political left. She used her charm and her social connections in the service of her paper, which was the center of her life.
The Lady Upstairs is the portrait of a unique life and a crucial era in American history.

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Release dateNov 19, 2013
ISBN9781466857506
The Lady Upstairs: Dorothy Schiff and the New York Post
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Marilyn Nissenson

Marilyn Nissenson, a veteran journalist, moved to New York after college. She remembers reading The New York Times for news coverage and Dolly Schiff’s Post for everything else.

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    If I could give this negative stars, I would. Badly written and, what's worse, factually incorrect. This moron couldn't even get the spelling of her subject's family nickname correct. She mislabeled the wedding picture (wrong date for that wedding). There's so much wrong with this book I don't know where to begin.Jeffrey Potter's book on Mrs. Schiff, Men, Money and Magic was a trivial and silly book, but at least everything in it was correct.

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