Research Catalog

Title

The deeds of my fathers : how my grandfather and father built New York and created the tabloid world of today : Generoso Pope, Sr., power broker of New York, and Gene Pope, Jr., publisher of the National Enquirer / Paul David Pope.

Author

Pope, Paul David, 1967-

Publication

[Lanham, Md.] : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010.

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Details

Description

xix, 396 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., geneal. table, map; 25 cm.

Summary

"Intense rivalry and Borgia-like cunning made the Pope family one of America's wealthiest and most influential--now a descendent of the two Pope patriarchs chronicles a family that embodied the American century..."--Dust jacket flap.

Subject

• Pope, Generoso, 1891-1950
• Pope, Generoso, 1927-1988
• Pope family
• National enquirer (New York, N.Y. : 1957) > History
• Progresso italo-americano > History
• 1900-1999
• Publishers and publishing > United States > Biography
• Tabloid newspapers > United States > History > 20th century
• Newspaper publishing > United States > History > 20th century
• New York (N.Y.) > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies
• History
• Biographies.

Note

• "A Philip Turner book"--T.p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword: A tale of three sons -- Prologue: A meeting with Frank Costello -- An empire built on sand -- Crowning political kings -- Publishing a newspaper for Missy Smith -- Afterword: The Enquirer up for sale.

ISBN

• 9781442204867
• 1442204869

OCLC

• 600995928
• SCSB-11340291

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library