Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 2001. [Vol. 7.] Eger Journal of American Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 27)

Book review - András Tarnóc: Csillag András: Joseph Pulitzer és az amerikai sajtó. [Joseph Pulitzer and the American Journalism]

TARNÓC ANDRÁS: CSILLAG ANDRÁS: JOSEPH PULITZER ÉS AZ AMERIKAI SAJTÓ [JOSEPH PULITZER AND THE AMERICAN JOURNALISM], BUDAPEST, OSIRIS KIADÓ, 2000. 214 PP. Joseph Pulitzer is undoubtedly one of the greatest figures of the Hungarian-American community. Csillag's carefully researched and thoroughly documented ambitious work commemorates the life and personal achievements of the press tycoon. The book, however, surpasses the boundaries of a simple biography as it incorporates its protagonist in the continuum of Hungarian and American history. The work does not remain on the level of information reproduction as it analyzes the historical and cultural role of its main subject. The book is not only a milestone in the recording of Hungarian-American relations, but provides a thorough demonstration of an immigrant's integration into the host society. The well-structured monograph is divided into ten chapters. The work concentrates on three aspects of Pulitzer's life, presenting Pulitzer as a journalist, as a politician and as an immigrant. However, these roles are interrelated. Pulitzer, after all is primarily known as a journalist and all his activities are and should be judged from this vantage point. His political activity, his role as the "king-maker" in the 1884 presidential election, the peace maker function in the BritishVenezuelan border dispute, the infamous war mongering of the yellow press and the legal conflict with the Roosevelt administration, in addition to his relationship to Hungary and to the Hungarian

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