Pulitzer

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First sentence: At eighteen, Joseph Pulitzer, a penniless, gangling Hungarian emigrant recruited in Europe to fight in the Civil War, threw himself from the ship bringing him to the United States and swam ashore to collect the bounty he thought should come to him and not to his recruiter.

Year

2001

Language

English

Publisher

Wiley

Editions

5

Pages

464

ISBN

9780471332008

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