List of illustrations -- Part 1: Angry Young Man: -- Chapter 1: Westward ho!: -- Goat of Company L -- Unburied corpses -- Search for independence -- Chapter 2: Bitten by politics: -- Murderous intent -- Breaking with Grant -- Chapter 3: Right hand of Schurz: -- Dream of reform -- Cincinnati fiasco -- Stumping for Greeley -- Republican turns democrat -- Chapter 4: Love on the run: -- Resolute Pulitzer, irresolute Tilden -- Not worthy of such love -- Uncertain and inconstant -- Politician's honeymoon -- Part 2: Sensationalist: -- Chapter 1: How to win circulation: -- Colossal nerve -- Pistol-packing editor -- Chapter 2: Road to power: -- Electionitis -- Beaten by the bourbons -- Loudest voice on the Mississippi -- Chapter 3: Unwelcome in St Louis: -- Killing at the post-dispatch -- Gentlemen, a change has taken place -- Part 3: Triumph: -- Chapter 1: Reformer and salesman: -- New social conscience -- Democrats, unite! -- Bucking the establishment -- Chapter 2: Electing a president: -- Defection of Dana -- Ma! Ma! Where's my pa? -- Burn this letter! -- Chapter 3: Disenchantment: -- Walking the bowery -- Office seekers -- Rescuing the goddess -- Creative mental power -- Looking for suggestive men -- Chapter 4: Nerves on edge: -- Profane philanthropist -- Four-month congressman -- Boodling Aldermen -- Electing a mayor -- Chapter 5: Spinning like a top: -- Democrat in Babylon -- What is fortune without health? -- Star-spangled tights -- Chapter 6: Feud with Dana: -- Renegade Jew -- Move on, Pulitzer! --
Tortured nerves, failing eyesight
Chapter 2: Searching for health:
Chapter 3: Editor in absentia:
Chapter 4: Jones problem:
Chapter 5: Loneliest man in the world:
Piggery nero, pigeon Nelson
Chapter 1: Persuasion by checkbook:
Chapter 2: Plague of Bryan:
Chapter 4: Journalistic dramaturgy:
Chapter 5: War and peace:
Chapter 1: Grooming the admiral:
Gentleman wants companion
Chapter 2: Twentieth century:
Chapter 3: Eccentricities of Andes:
Hire a man who gets drunk
Mayor McClellan's shocker
Chapter 4: Fever of 1904:
Gush, guilder and glutinous
Chapter 5: Insurance scandal:
Don't be unnecessarily cruel
Chapter 6: Nerves in tatters:
Pulitzer-Vanderbilt entente
Chapter 7: Artificial world:
My long longed for friend
Unpresidential glutinous conduct
Chapter 8: Roosevelt vs Pulitzer:
Big man of all newspapers
Chapter 9: Pulitzer-and the press-victorious:
Chapter 10: Last election:
Don't paint the devil as black as he is
Most people think I'm dead
Afterword: Decline and fall
Author's note and acknowledgments